New partition factor calculations for evaluating the damage of low energy ions in silicon

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3667-3674

  Akkerman, A ^b   Barak, J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electronic losses; Monte Carlo calculations; NIEL; Partition factor

Indexed keywords

LINDHARD'S CALCULATIONS; NON-IONIZING ENERGY LOSSES (NIEL); PARTITION FACTOR;

IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 33846286801     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.884382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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