Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

(Nanowerk News) Space debris is one of the biggest challenges to the safe operation of satellites and future rocket launches, which can be damaged by it. The amount of debris in space is constantly ...

A new concept for targeted cancer treatment has proven somewhat successful in mice thus far. The concept relies on using radioactive ion beams to target cancerous tumors and cells directly. There are, ...

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two possible states: heads or ...

Members of the research team at the heavy ion gantry of the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre. Left to right: Simon Jolly, Joao Seco, Laurent Kelleter, Lennart Volz and Raffaella Radogna. (Courtesy: ...

Intense pulsed ion beam (IPIB) irradiation is an advanced technique that employs high-intensity, short-duration ion pulses to induce rapid thermal and structural transformations on material surfaces.

Cross-section observation of a specimen using SEM can produce detailed information vital for research and development as well as for failure analysis. Generally, surface observation alone is incapable ...

Unlike the electron beam used in scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), the beam in a focused ion beam system (FIB) is composed of gallium (Ga) ions. The ions forming the structure ...

Utilizing Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) for in-line metrology is a newly emerging method of process control that requires contamination-free measurements, enabling SIMS on product wafers.