Investigating and Studying the Modifications of Nano and Micro-sized Amorphous Materials Under the Influence of a High Energy Radiation

Mohammed M. Sabri

doi:10.14500/aro.11290

Mohammed M. Sabri Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University, Koya KOY45, Kurdistan Region - F.R. Iraq http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-7202

Keywords: Glass, Morphology changes, Nanoring, Quasi melting, Transmission electron microscopy

Abstract

This research explored the behavior of glass when bombarded by high-energy radiation, especially electron beams inside transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Six types of glasses are investigated under e-beam. The work is conducted using three types of TEMs of energies of 120, 200, and 300 keV. The findings show that these microscopies have a significant impact on the glass, as various observations were documented. Using a wide electron beam, morphology changes combined with bubble formation are observed in the glass. These changes are rounding and smoothening of glass edges and surfaces. In addition, the findings show that there is no material loss due to irradiation as confirmed by the energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The results also show that high silica glass is very sensitive, while high boron glass is found to be less sensitive to irradiation. Using a smaller size electron beam, on the other hand, resulted in the fabrication of a nanoring/nanocrater in glass. The possible applications of this research can be in the protection and packaging of three-dimensional electronic equipment and nanoscale pattern formation through roughening of the external glass contour through phase separation and the opposite through local changing of a part of the glass through the pseudo-melting and the stability of loaded and un-loaded glasses to the irradiation. Furthermore, by generating a nanoring or a nanocrater through e-beam, the lithography process is successfully performed, as the effect of the electron beam is solely at the irradiation region, while the regions outside the e-beam remain unaffected

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Author Biography

Mohammed M. Sabri, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University, Koya KOY45, Kurdistan Region - F.R. Iraq

Mohammed M. Sabri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Health, Koya University. He got the B.Sc.degree in Materials Science from Department of Materials Science, School of Applied Sciences, University of Technology/Baghdad in 2001. He got the M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from Department of Applied Physics, School of Applied Sciences, University of Technology/Baghdad in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in Nano Materials from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. His research interests are in materials investigations, nano precipitation, glass and amorphous materials and electron microscopy. Dr. Mohammed is a member of NanoLab at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.

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