Ion mixing of metal/Al bilayers near 77 K
- 30 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 54 (5) , 413-415
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.100937
Abstract
The efficiency of interfacial ion mixing is measured for metal/Al (metal=Ti, Cr, Ni, and Mo) thin-film bilayers irradiated with 285 keV Xe+ ions near 77 K. The results indicate that, as a group, mixing of 3d-metal/Al pairs irradiated by Xe can be explained by neither a pure binary collision cascade nor a pure thermal spike model. Such a situation should exist; that it should be found at the average atomic numbers of the present bilayers is consistent with recent theoretical predictions.Keywords
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