Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2012) 60: 10402
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2012120349

Swift heavy ion-induced silicon dioxide nanostructuration: experimental observation of velocity effect

¹ Université Montpellier 2, IES, UMR5214, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
² CNES, 31410 Toulouse, France

^a e-mail: antoine.touboul@univ-montp2.fr

Received: 31 August 2012
Revised: 21 September 2012
Accepted: 2 October 2012
Published online: 5 November 2012

Abstract

Thanks to atomic force microscope observation of swift heavy ion-induced structural modifications of SiO₂-Si layer, we show that for a given linear energy transfer value the radial atomic modification along the ion track depends on the ion velocity regime.