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Experimental Study of Cluster Size Effect with Size-selected Cluster Ion Beam System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Noriaki Toyoda
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry, Himeji Institute of Technology, 3–1–2 Kouto, Kamigori, Hyogo, 678–1205, JAPAN
Shingo Houzumi
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry, Himeji Institute of Technology, 3–1–2 Kouto, Kamigori, Hyogo, 678–1205, JAPAN
Takaaki Aoki
Affiliation:
Quantum Science and Engineering Center, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606–8501, JAPAN
Isao Yamada
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry, Himeji Institute of Technology, 3–1–2 Kouto, Kamigori, Hyogo, 678–1205, JAPAN
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Abstract

A size-selected gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) system has been developed to study the size effects of energetic large cluster ion bombardments on a solid surface for the first time. This system equipped a permanent magnet with a magnetic flux density of 1.2 T. There is a sliding detector and sample holder on a guiding rail perpendicular to the incoming cluster beam axis. By locating a sample at a certain position, particular size of cluster ion can be irradiated continuously with affordable ion current density. When the total acceleration energy of Ar-GCIB was 5keV, both amorphous and oxide thickness on Si substrate increased with decreasing cluster size. This result showed good agreement with that obtained from molecular dynamics simulations.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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