Excitonic model of track registration of energetic heavy ions in insulators

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 362-366

  Itoh, Noriaki ^a   Stoneham, A Marshall ^b  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphisation; Defect cluster; Electronic excitation; Exciton; Heavy ion track; Radiation effects; Self trapped exciton; Swift heavy ion; Thermal spike

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; EXCITONS; HEAVY IONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; HEAVY ION TRACK; SELF TRAPPED EXCITON; SWIFT HEAVY ION; THERMAL SPIKE;

ION BOMBARDMENT;

EID: 0032477068     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(98)00448-0     Document Type: Article

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