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Phys Rev Lett
; 114(11): 118302, 2015 Mar 20.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25839315
RESUMEN
We show direct experimental evidence that radiation effects produced by single MeV heavy ions on a polymer surface are weakened when the length of the ion track in the material is confined into layers of a few tens of nanometers. Deviation from the bulk (thick film) behavior of ion-induced craters starts at a critical thickness as large as â¼40 nm, due to suppression of long-range additive effects of excited atoms along the track. Good agreement was found between the experimental results, molecular dynamic simulations, and an analytical model.