
Processing products on the nanoscale, developing prototypes for microelectronics or analyzing biological samples: The array of purposes for finely focused ion beams is large. Specialists from the EU collaboration Suit4NANO have now reviewed the quite a few choices and produced a roadmap for the future.
The posting, released in Applied Physics Testimonials, is aimed at pupils, users from industry and science as well as research policy makers.
“We understood that concentrated ion beams can be utilized in many distinct means, and we considered we had a fantastic overview at the start off of the undertaking. But then we found out that there are numerous far more purposes than we thought. In numerous publications, the use of targeted ion beams is not even explicitly stated, but is concealed in the approaches area,” says Dr. Katja Höflich, physicist at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), who coordinated the extensive report.
“It was detective function. In unique, we located operate from the 1960s and 1970s