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Dr. Gregor Hlawacek

Head Ion Induced Nanostructures
Ion Microscopy
g.hlawacekhzdr.de
Phone: +49 351 260 3409
+49 351 260 2411

Ion Induced Nanostructures

We study processes during the interaction of low energy (10 eV – 50 keV) ions with different charge states with materials, especially for the controlled modification and nano-patterning of their surfaces. Such modifications can be material removal through sputtering of surface atoms but also near surface ion beam mixing, ion beam induced defect engineering, or implantation of guest atoms (see figure below). Bottom up as well as top down surface structuring can be achieved through the use of either broad beam irradiation or focused ion beam irradiation.

The first one allows to roughen, smoothen, or clean technical surfaces. Furthermore, the energy deposited by the continuous ion impact drives the surface out of equilibrium inducing many processes on the surface and the sub-surface region.

Ioneninduzierte Oberflächenprozesse

Alternatively, focused ion beams allow the top down structuring of surfaces or surface near regions with a high spatial resolution compatible with modern nanostructure fabrication requirements. In our group we employ a wide range of focused ion beams from very light nobel gas ions to small heavy ion clusters to understand the behaviour of materials and create state-of-the-art nanostructures.

Main research topics:

Foto: A silicon surface after 500 eV Ar+ sputtering under 67° ©Copyright: Dr. Stefan Facsko

Pattern formation and surface analytics

Information about surface modification by low-energy ion irradiation and surface analytics by spectroscopy and scanning probe techniques

Foto: COB model ©Copyright: Dr. Richard Arthur Wilhelm

Highly Charged Ions

Foto: liquid metal ion source ©Copyright: Dr. Lothar Bischoff

Focused Ion Beams

Information about the development and application of focused ion beams using liquid metal alloy ion sources

Foto: HIM Trimer ©Copyright: Gregor Hlawacek

Helium Ion Microscopy

Information about Helium Ion Microscopy with special emphasis on the Orion NanoFab installed at the HZDR.

Foto: Energy_barriers_XW_MP ©Copyright: Dr. Matthias Posselt

Computer Simulations

Defects and diffusion

Foto: ArBlade - FWIZ-N Instrument ©Copyright: Dr. Nico Klingner

Setups - FWIZ-N

List of our setups for preparation, material modifications, analytical methods, and imaging.

Group information:

Group Members - Ion Induced Nanostructures

Current and former group members

Recent publications

Older publications can be found in the database (longer loading time)

2021

Domain wall damping in ultrathin nanostripes with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

O. Volkov, F. Kronast, C. Abert, E. S. Oliveros Mata, T. Kosub, P. Makushko, D. Erb, O. Pylypovskyi, M.-A. Mawass, D. Sheka, S. Zhou, J. Faßbender, D. Makarov

Physical Review Applied 15(2021), 034038

2020

Measurement of Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier contribution to the self-organized formation of ordered surface patterns on Ge(001)

P. Myint, D. Erb, X. Zhang, L. Wiegart, Y. Zhang, A. Fluerasu, R. Headrick, S. Facsko, K. Ludwig

Physical Review B 102(2020), 201404(R)

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Original PDF 1,6 MB Secondary publication

Superconducting properties of in-plane W-C nanowires grown by He+ Focused Ion Beam Induced Deposition

P. Orús, R. Córdoba, G. Hlawacek, J. M. de Teresa

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HIM FIBID dataset for Superconducting properties of … (Id 31704) HZDR-primary research data are used by this (Id 31703) publication

Nanotechnology 32(2020)8, 085301

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Fulltext from iopscience.iop.org
Secondary publication expected from 10.11.2021

Structural and chemical evolution of Au-silica core-shell nanoparticles during 20 keV helium ion irradiation: a comparison between experiment and simulation

M. Mousley, W. Möller, P. Philipp, G. Hlawacek, T. Wirtz, S. Eswara

Scientific Reports 10(2020), 12058

Scanning transmission imaging in the helium ion microscope using a microchannel plate with a delay line detector

E. Serralta Hurtado De Menezes, N. Klingner, O. de Castro, M. Mousley, S. Eswara, S. Duarte Pinto, T. Wirtz, G. Hlawacek

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Data for: Scanning transmission imaging in the helium ion … (Id 31631) HZDR-primary research data are used by this (Id 31506) publication

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 11(2020), 1854-1864

Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy Study on Color Centers of Helium Ion-Implanted 4H–SiC

Y. Song, Z. Xu, R. Li, H. Wang, Y. Fan, M. Rommel, J. Liu, G. Astakhov, G. Hlawacek, B. Li, J. Xu, F. Fang

Nanomanufacturing and Metrology 3(2020), 205-217

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Secondary publication expected from 15.09.2021

Freestanding and Supported MoS2 Monolayers under Cluster Irradiation: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation

S. Ghaderzadeh, V. Ladygin, M. Ghorbani Asl, G. Hlawacek, M. Schleberger, A. Krasheninnikov

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 12(2020)33, 37454-37463

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Secondary publication expected from 28.07.2021

Imaging and Milling Resolution of Light Ion Beams from HIM and Liquid Metal Alloy Ion Source driven FIBs

N. Klingner, G. Hlawacek, P. Mazarov, W. Pilz, F. Meyer, L. Bischoff

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 11(2020), 1742-1749

Nanopatterning of the (001) surface of crystalline Ge by ion irradiation at off-normal incidence: Experiment and simulation

D. Erb, R. de Schultz, A. Ilinov, K. Nordlund, M. R. Bradley, S. Facsko

Physical Review B 102(2020), 165422

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Original PDF 6,1 MB Secondary publication

Helium Ion Microscopy for Reduced Spin Orbit Torque Switching Currents

P. Dunne, C. Fowley, G. Hlawacek, J. Kurian, G. Atcheson, S. Colis, N. Teichert, B. Kundys, M. Venkatesan, J. Lindner, A. M. Deac, T. Hermans, J. Coey, B. Doudin

Nano Letters 20(2020)10, 7036-7042

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Secondary publication expected from 15.09.2021

General Colloidal Synthesis of Transition-Metal Disulfide Nanomaterials as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

C. Meerbach, B. Klemmed, D. Spittel, C. Bauer, Y. J. Park, R. Hübner, H. Y. Jeong, D. Erb, H. S. Shin, V. Lesnyak, A. Eychmüller

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 12(2020)11, 13148-13155

Formation of Thin NiGe Films by Magnetron Sputtering and Flash Lamp Annealing

V. Begeza, E. Mehner, H. Stöcker, Y. Xie, A. García, R. Hübner, D. Erb, S. Zhou, L. Rebohle

Nanomaterials 10(2020)4, 648

Conductive ITO interfaces for optoelectronic applications based on highly ordered inverse opal thin films

L. Galle, S. Ehrling, S. Lochmann, S. Kaskel, L. Bischoff, J. Grothe

ChemNanoMat 6(2020)4, 560-566

Sputtering of nanostructured tungsten and comparison to modelling with TRI3DYN

R. Stadlmayr, P. S. Szabo, D. Mayer, C. Cupak, T. Dittmar, L. Bischoff, S. Möller, M. Rasinski, R. A. Wilhelm, W. Möller, F. Aumayr

Journal of Nuclear Materials 532(2020), 152019-1-152019-9

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Final Draft PDF 10,2 MB Secondary publication

An atomic force microscope integrated with a helium ion microscope for correlative nanocharacterization

S. H. Andany, G. Hlawacek, S. Hummel, C. Brillard, M. Kangül, G. E. Fantner

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HIM and AFM Data set from first AFM in the HIM test (Id 30718) HZDR-primary research data are used by this (Id 30689) publication

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 11(2020), 1272-1279

Boron Liquid Metal Alloy Ion Sources for Special FIB Applications

L. Bischoff, N. Klingner, P. Mazarov, W. Pilz, F. Meyer

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 38(2020)4, 042801-1-042801-5

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Final Draft PDF 435 kB Secondary publication

Visualisation and Chemical Characterisation of the Cathode Electrolyte Interphase in High Voltage Li-ion Battery Material LiCoPO4 using He-ion Microscopy and in-situ Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy

L. Wheatcroft, N. Klingner, R. Heller, G. Hlawacek, D. Ozkaya, J. Cookson, B. J. Inkson

ACS Applied Energy Materials 3(2020)9, 8822-8832

Untethered and Ultrafast Soft-bodied Robots

X. Wang, G. Mao, J. Ge, D. Michael, G. S. Canon Bermudez, D. Wirthl, R. Illing, T. Kosub, L. Bischoff, C. Wang, J. Faßbender, M. Kaltenbrunner, D. Makarov

Communications Materials 1(2020), 67

Morphology modification of Si nanopillars under ion irradiation at elevated temperatures: plastic deformation and controlled thinning to 10 nm

X. Xu, K.-H. Heinig, W. Möller, H.-J. Engelmann, N. Klingner, A. Gharbi, R. Tiron, J. Borany, G. Hlawacek

Semiconductor Science and Technology 35(2020)1, 015021

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Channeling effects in gold nano-clusters under He ion irradiation: insights from molecular dynamics simulations

S. Ghaderzadeh, M. Ghorbani Asl, S. Kretschmer, G. Hlawacek, A. Krasheninnikov

Nanotechnology 31(2020)3, 035302