Electron beam surface treatment is a cutting-edge technology used to modify the properties of materials, enhancing their performance in various applications. This technique involves the use of ...

This illustration shows the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling process, a precise method for shaping materials on a nanoscale. A focused beam of gallium ions (depicted as a blue arrow) sculpts a surface ...

In ISS, a beam ... surface atoms, allowing identification of the elemental composition of the surface. The scattering angle provides additional information about the spatial arrangement of atoms on ...

Accelerators help in this effort by using charged particle beams to strike selected materials to either analyse or modify their surface, composition ... and accelerator-based ion beam methods, in ...

It uses a scanning electron microscope equipped with a focused gallium ion beam to sequentially mill away the sample surface. In-column backscattered (EsB) and secondary electron (SE) detectors are ...