EXPERIMENTS OF MeV ION BEAM INDUCED ATOMIC MIXING

An experimental apparatus for studies of MeV ion beam modification of materials has been established on a 3 MV tandem accelerator at Fudan university. A system of X-Y electrostatic scanning implantation of MeV heavy ions and in situ Rutherford. backscattering analysis was included in it. The uniformity of scanning implantation was checked by the RBS measurement of a Si wafer implanted with 1 MeV Au ions. MeV ion beam mixing of Au/Si, Au/Ge and Ag/Si systems was preliminarily studied. The samples were irradiated by certain fluences of 1 MeV Ag ions at room temperature. The mixed layers were analyzed in situ using the glancing RBS technique with 2 MeV 4He+ ions. For Au/Si system, a uniformly mixed layer with a defined composition is obtained, and the intermixing is much less for Ag/Si system than for Au/Si system.