Giant enhancement of material damage associated to electronic excitation during ion irradiation: The case of LiNbO

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 206, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1109-1116

  Rivera, A ^a,b   Olivares, J ^a,c   Garcia, G ^d   Cabrera, J M ^e   Agullo Rueda F ^f   Agullo Lopez F ^a,e  

^a CENTRO DE MICROANÁLISIS DE MATERIALES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^d ALBA SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL PROCESS; DAMAGE RATE; DEEP IMPACT; DEVICE DEGRADATION; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; FLUENCES; GENERATION RATE; HEAVY-ION THERAPY; ION ENERGIES; ION IRRADIATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MATERIAL DAMAGES; NANOPATTERNING; NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; SPACE MISSIONS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES;

FUSION REACTORS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; IONS; IRRADIATION; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; POINT DEFECTS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 67649947483     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200824409     Document Type: Article

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