Swift heavy ion irradiation of Pt nanocrystals embedded in SiO2

Giulian, Raquel; Kluth, Patrick; Sprouster, David; Araujo, Leandro; Byrne, Aidan; Ridgway, Mark C

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Swift heavy ion irradiation of Pt nanocrystals embedded in SiO2

Date

2008

Authors

Giulian, Raquel

Kluth, Patrick

Sprouster, David

Araujo, Leandro

Byrne, Aidan

Ridgway, Mark C

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Pt nanocrystals (NCs) formed by ion implantation in SiO2 were irradiated with 185 MeV Au ions in the fluence range from 2 × 1012 to 6 × 1014 cm-2. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) shows that spherical Pt NCs with diameter smaller than a certain th