Swift heavy ion irradiation of SrTiO$_3$ under grazing incidence

Details Swift heavy ion irradiation of SrTiO$_3$ under grazing incidence Swift heavy ion irradiation of SrTiO$_3$ under grazing incidence

2008-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/0801.4670v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 9 figures Submittted to NJP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/10/5/053007

The irradiation of SrTiO$_3$ single crystals with swift heavy ions leads to modifications of the surface. The details of the morphology of these modifications depends strongly on the angle of incidence and can be characterized by atomic force microscopy. At glancing angles, discontinuous chains of nanosized hillocks appear on the surface. The latent track radius can be determined from the variation of the length of the chains with the angle of incidence. This radius is material specific and allows the calculation of the electron-phonon-coupling constant for SrTiO$_3$. We show that a theoretical description of the nanodot creation is possible within a two-temperature model if the spatial electron density is taken into account. The appearance of discontinuous features can be explained easily within this model, but it turns out that the electronic excitation dissipates on a femtosecond time scale and thus too rapidly to feed sufficient energy into the phonon system in order to induce a thermal melting process. We demonstrate that this can be solved if the temperature dependent diffusion coefficient is introduced into the model.

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