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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages 170-174Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(02)02020-7
Keywords
highly charged ion; graphite; diamond; nanostructure
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Nanoscale transformation of electronic states by highly charged ion (HCI) impact on graphite surfaces is described. The high potential energy of slow HCI, which induces multiple emission of electrons from the surface, provides a strong modification of the electronic states of the local area upon graphite surfaces. The HCI impact and the subsequent surface treatment either by electron injection from a scanning tunneling microscopy tip or by He-Cd laser irradiation induce a localized transition from sp(2) to sp(3) hybridization in graphite, resulting in the formation of nanoscale diamondlike structures (nanodiamond) at the impact region. From Raman spectroscopic measurements on sp(2) related peaks, it is found that the HCI irradiation creates vacancy complexes in contrast to ions having a lower charge state, which generate single vacancies. It is of interest that a single impact of HCI creates one nanodiamond structure, suggesting potential applications of HCI in nanoscale material processing. (C) 2002 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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