Materials:
Metals, alloys, high Tc superconductors, dielectrics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, compound materials, biological materials.
Properties:
Mechanical, electrical, electro-chemical, chemical, optical, and magnetic properties, hardness, wear resistance, adhesion, fracture toughness, corrosion behavior, oxidation, biocompatibility, catalysis, conductivity.
Applications:
Metal processing, polymer treatment, functional coatings, metallization, large area treatment, microstructuring and nanostructuring, bio-medical and industrial applications.
Techniques and Equipment Development:
Ion implantation, ion beam mixing, ion beam assisted deposition, intense pulsed ion beams, cluster ion beams, plasma immersion ion implantation, hybrid and duplex processes, novel techniques.
Modeling, Simulation, and Theory:
Ion-solid interactions, computer simulation studies, phase formation, radiation damage, amorphization, sputtering.
Ion Beams in Nanotechnology:
Nano-cluster formation, nano/micro-implantation and nano/micro-etching by focused ion beams, nanofilm deposition, nanopore and nanowire formation, nanotubes and their transformation. Ion Beam fabrication of MEM & NEMs, Sensors, Proton Beam Writing, Nano-Lithography, scaffold building, and Projection Ion Beam, Fabrication of micro/nano devices..., instrumentation
Biological effects of ion beams:
Ion beam mutation, DNA delivery by ion beams, ion beam modification of microbes.
Others:
Materials Modification by SWIFT heavy ions, Electronic-loss induced effects, Effects due to Electronic Thermal Spike and Coulomb Explosion, Ion beam modification of textiles.
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