Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2012-02-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
Impacts of individual slow highly charged ions on alkaline earth halide and alkali halide surfaces create nano-scale surface modifications. For different materials and impact energies a wide variety of topographic alterations have been observed, ranging from regularly shaped pits to nano-hillocks. We present experimental evidence for a second threshold for defect creation supported by simulations involving the initial electronic heating and subsequent molecular dynamics. From our findings a unifying phase diagram underlying these diverse observations can be derived. By chemically etching of CaF$_2$ samples after irradiation with slow highly charged ions both above and below the potential energy threshold for hillock formation another threshold exists above which triangular pits are observed after etching. This threshold depends on both the potential and kinetic energies of the incident ion. Simulations indicate that this second threshold is associated with the formation of defect aggregates in the topmost layers of CaF$_2$.
Aumayr Fritz
Burgdörfer Joachim
El-Said A. S.
Facsko Stefan
Heller Rainer
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