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NuPECC Meeting Prague , June 2011 . SPIRIT MiDTERM STatus. Wolfhard Möller. European Access to Ion Technologies. www.spirit-ion.eu. Coordinated by. 11 Partners from 6 European Member States and 2 Associated States
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NuPECC Meeting Prague, June 2011 SPIRIT MiDTERMSTatus Wolfhard Möller
European Access to Ion Technologies www.spirit-ion.eu Coordinated by • 11 Partners from 6 European Member States and 2 Associated States • Free Access for European Users at 7 European Ion Beam Laboratories • Development of Ion Technologies for Materials Analysis andModification • Promotingand Training Activities
European Access to Ion Technologies SPIRIT offers • Ion-beam based quantitative materialsanalysis:Rutherford backscattering (RBS) ElasticRecoilDetection (ERD) NuclearReaction Analysis (NRA) Proton-induced X-rayemission (PIXE) …. • Ion-beam modificationofmaterials:Conventionalionimplantation Plasma-basedionimplantation Ion-assistedthinfilmdeposition • Ion irradiationNuclearmaterials Biological cells …. Free access for European Users User travel and local costs covered by EU User Proposals: www.spirit-ion.eu
SPIRIT Dates and Numbers Project Duration 1-March-2009 – 28-Febr-2013 Total EC Funding6.991.000 € Total User Time ~ 13.000 h Distribution ofActivities Distribution of Budget
SPIRIT Transnational Access (TNA) • > 90% total deliveryofprojecteduser time • varyingperformanceat individual infrastructures • toooptimisticviewforbiomedicalapplications • underestimationofeffortsforuseracquisition • redistributionof TNA quotaformonths 25-48 Environmental & Cultural Heritage Biomedical Materials
SPIRIT Networking • Workshops andTutorials (internalandexternalparticipants) • Workshop "New Detector Technologies forAdvanced Materials Research using Ion Beam Analysis", PlitviceLakes, Croatia • Tutorial "Ion Implantation and Irradiation", Dresden, Germany • Technician Exchange Program • Detector Development • ReductionofAnalysing Beam Effects • Standards and Round Robin Actions forIon Beam Analysis
SPIRIT Joint “Research” Activities (JRA) Beams(Work Package 5) Targeted Irradiation In-situ Instrumentation Improving Analysis (Work Package 6) Detector Development ReductionofAnalysing Beam Effects Extendinginto New Fields (Work Package 7) 3-dimensional Analysis Chemical andMolecular Imaging
UBW / TU Munich Microbeam Cell Irradiation Facilities
HZDR UPMC Paris Segmented IBA Detectors • Large detectorarea • reduces time ofanalysis • reducesirradiationdamageof sample • deterioratesenergyresolution due tokinematicspread
High-resolution gas ionization detectors ETHZ Zurich RBI Zagreb • noradiationdegradation • very high heavy ionenergyresolutionMeVprotons 11 keV 72 MeVXeions 1.4 % • miniaturizedversionavailable
Beam-induced sample deterioration • knownforlong hydrogen analysis in polymersandglassesstronglydependent on individual problem • bettercharacterizationandunderstandingintendednewdedicatedexperimentscompilationofdatabase ETHZ Zurich UPMC Paris
High-resolution PIXE for chemical analysis wavelengthdispersiveanalysisusingcrystalspectrometer RBI Zagreb
3D Analysis using Confocal PIXE • 2D lateral resolutionby beam scanning • depthresolutionbyfocused x-raycollection JSI Ljubljana from 2D scan w/o lens hematiteparticle on a substrate from 3D measurementandreconstruction
MeV Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry • Molecular Mapping • "Soft" electronic desorption: moreintact large molecules • Option ofoperationatambientpressure U Surrey leucine (aminoacid)
MeV SIMS: Forensic Applications? U Surrey
Jet Sputtering by Electronic Energy Loss • Very high sputteringyield • Modified thermal spikedescription User Marcel Toulemonde GANIL-CIRIL Caen, France Heavy ionirradiation 200 MeV Au+ Infrastructure UBW/TU Munich Sputteredclusters on catcher Thermal componentandjetcomponent
Ion-Induced Intermixing of Metallic Multilayers • Collisionaland potential chemicaleffects User Momir Milosavljevic VINCA Institute Belgrade, Serbia Ion Irradiation and RBS Infrastructure University of Surrey
Fusion reactor materials RBS, ERD, NRA ; H Implantation User R. Gonzalez ArrabalInst. Fusion Nuclear Madrid, Spain Infrastructure HZDR
NiTi for prosthetic implants • Superelasticity • Shape-Memory Effects • But: BiotoxicityofNi User Rui Martins Inst. Tecnol. e NuclearLisbon, Portugal Plasma Immersion Implantation 20...40 keV N++ O+ O+ N+ Infrastructure HZDR SurfacelayerstronglydenudedofNi
Bioapplication of nanomaterials • Interaction ofmagneticnanoparticlesandcells PIXE User Giacomo Ceccone EC Joint Research CentreIspra, Italy Cytosol Nucleus Optical Infrastructure CNRS-CENBG Fe C Nanoparticlesdecoratetheperinuclearregionofthecell
Photocatalytic Thin Films • TiO2 (anatase) for environmental decontamination • N dopingforactivationbyvisible light • Thinfilmdeposition: Reactive DC magnetronsputteringwith N codoping User NunoBarradasInst. Tecnol. e NuclearLisbon, Portugal HI-ERD Infrastructure HZDR Surprise: thereis Na in thefilms (fromglasssubstrate)Surprise: thereismore C than N in thefilms
Phytoremediation of Agricultural Pollutants • Localizationofnutritionelementsandmetals in plants • Defencemechanismsagainstuptake User LyudmillaLyubenova Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany μPIXE Infrastructure JSI Ljubljana