The Tandetron Laboratory of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is equipped with five beam lines associated with a 3 MV tandem electrostatic accelerator model 4130 MC from High Voltage Engineering Europa B.V. This accelerator is coupled with two duoplasmatron sources and a single sputter ion source and provides ions from hydrogen to gold. One of these lines is a nuclear microbeam facility, utilizing ion beams of micro- and sub-micro sizes for materials research by use of particle induced x-ray emission spectroscopy, particle induced gamma emission, Rutherford back-scattering spectroscopy, and scanning transmission ion microscopy methods as well as for ion beam writing. The major advantage of the presented microprobe is a possibility of 3D structure creation not only in polymer materials using light ions but also in other materials such as glass, ceramics, etc. by use of heavy ions. The focusing system allows focusing of charged particles with a maximum rigidity of 11 MeV amu/q2. The usual resolution in high and low current modes is 2 × 3 µm2 for a 100 pA and 0.3 × 0.5 µm2 for the 2000 ions/s of 2 MeV protons, respectively. A detailed facility description is given in the paper. The applications of focused beams of heavy ions as well as examples of light ions utilizing are also presented in the article.
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January 07 2019
Performance and application of heavy ion nuclear microbeam facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Řež, Czech Republic
Oleksandr Romanenko
;
Oleksandr Romanenko
a)
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: romanenko@ujf.cas.cz
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Vladimir Havranek;
Vladimir Havranek
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
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Anna Mackova;
Anna Mackova
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
2
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkinje University
, Ceske Mladeze 8, Usti nad Labem 400 96, Czech Republic
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Marie Davidkova;
Marie Davidkova
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
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Mariapompea Cutroneo
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Mariapompea Cutroneo
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
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Alexander G. Ponomarev;
Alexander G. Ponomarev
3
Institute of Applied Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
, Sumy 40030, Ukraine
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Gyula Nagy;
Gyula Nagy
4
Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Atomki)
, Bem tér 18/c, Debrecen H-4026, Hungary
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James Stammers;
James Stammers
1
Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
, Řež 250 68, Czech Republic
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Istvan Rajta
Istvan Rajta
4
Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Atomki)
, Bem tér 18/c, Debrecen H-4026, Hungary
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: romanenko@ujf.cas.cz
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90, 013701 (2019)
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Received:
October 19 2018
Accepted:
December 12 2018
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Oleksandr Romanenko, Vladimir Havranek, Anna Mackova, Marie Davidkova, Mariapompea Cutroneo, Alexander G. Ponomarev, Gyula Nagy, James Stammers, Istvan Rajta; Performance and application of heavy ion nuclear microbeam facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Řež, Czech Republic. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1 January 2019; 90 (1): 013701. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5070121
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