Topics of the School

• Ion interaction with materials: Energy loss processes

• Consequences of large energy density deposition in materials

• Models: Coulomb explosion, thermal spike, hammering effect

• Phase transformations, amorphization and crystallization

• Sputtering: Nuclear, Potential and Electronic

• Ion beam mixing and interface Modifications

• Interaction of energetic ions with nano-dimensional systems

• Characterization by RBS, ERDA, NRA

• Simulations of irradiation induced effects

Hands on software/demonstration experiments:

• TRIM/SRIM software

• RBS experiment

• RUMP/SIMNRA Simulation