Is the Ne operation of the helium ion microscope suitable for electron backscatter diffraction sample preparation?

• Annalena Wolff

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 965–983, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.73

• HIM (Orion Nanofab) is used for nowadays is supported by using up to three different ion species (He, Ne, and Ga). The versatility in its application can be understood when considering ion–solid interactions which occur when an energetic ion interacts with a specimen. An overview of the different

• displacements, replacement collisions, vacancy formation, and a collision cascade as well as backscattered ions, secondary ion emission, and ion implantation. A more detailed description of ion–solid interactions can be found in [20][21]. The difference between different ion species, energies, and incident

• angles lies in the statistics of the ion–solid interactions and determines the application space for ion species. Higher energy (25–30 keV) He ions predominantly interact via electronic interactions while Ga ions of the same energy predominantly interact via nuclear interactions, making the latter an

Disorder in H⁺-irradiated HOPG: effect of impinging energy and dose on Raman D-band splitting and surface topography

• Lisandro Venosta,
• Noelia Bajales,
• Sergio Suárez and
• Paula G. Bercoff

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2708–2717, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.253

• engineering in carbon-based materials. Keywords: disorder; highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG); ion–solid interactions; Raman spectroscopy; topography; Introduction The development of novel methods to control the properties of carbon-based materials by introducing disorder is currently a subject of