Add-On Services

IBC users may take advantage of additional services to ensure the successful realization of their experiments. The use of these add-on services can only be offered in conjunction with an accepted IBC experiment and an appropriate use of resources.

The following services are offered at the IBC, amongst others:

Sample preparation and processing

• Sample cutting, polishing, chemical cleaning, and etching
• Surface structuring with lithography (optical including laser, e-beam, ions) 

• Thermal processing with furnaces, short-term tempering systems, flash lamps, lasers (excimer, diode)

• Thin-film deposition (sputtering, electron beam and thermal evaporation)
• Production of basic device structures and rudimentary electronic characterization

Where appropriate, samples and devices will be processed within a clean-room environment (ISO-5 / Class 100).

Access to AMS sample preparation

Measurement and characterization

• Optical and electrical characterization (Raman, IR, PL; IU, CV, STM, ...)
• Electron microscopy and spectroscopy (SEM, HIM, TEM, AES, XPS)
• X-ray investigations (reflectometry, diffraction, small-angle scattering)

Simulation and data analysis

• Simulation of ion-solid interactions (doping, defects, ion beam mixing)
• Simulation of surface patterning (sputtering, surface diffusion)
• Data evaluation of ion beam analysis