Development of liquid metal ion sources for cluster deposition of ferroma- gnetic materials and their application in a focussed ion beam system

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI961237

Project closed

Start date 17 March 1997

End date 16 March 1999

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Council for the Central Laboratory ofthe Research Councils
United Kingdom

Objective

Liquid metal ion sources (LMIS) are point sources having a high angular intensity. Therefore, they are applied to focused ion beam (FIB) systems. The use of FIB systems using atomic ions is well known, but there has been very little work to date on focused clusters from LMIS. The investigation of clusters from ferromagnetic materials is of much interest for basic research as well as for applications in nanoscale magnetic devices and electronics and for new catalytic compounds. The project is concerned with the formation of clusters from ferromagnetic materials by LMIS, their deposition using a high energy ion optical column with ExB mass filter and the investigation of their physical properties. An attempt will also be made to form permanent magnetic microstructures using the high energy focused cluster beam.

Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TP15 - Instrumentation and Applied Physics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

Council for the Central Laboratory ofthe Research Councils

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: OX11 0QX Didcot, Oxfordshire ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Not available

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data