Atomic-scale effects behind structural instabilities in Si lamellae during ion beam thinning

The rise of nanotechnology has created an ever-increasing need to probe structures on the atomic scale, to which transmission electron microscopy has largely been the answer. Currently, the only way to efficiently thin arbitrary bulk samples into thin lamellae in preparation for this technique is to...

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Main Authors: E. Holmström, J. Kotakoski, L. Lechner, U. Kaiser, K. Nordlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3698411