Pjc. King et al., TRANSMISSION ION CHANNELING IMAGES OF CRYSTAL DEFECTS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 99(1-4), 1995, pp. 419-422
This paper demonstrates how images of crystal defects can be produced
using ion channeling. A focused, scanned beam of MeV protons from the
University of Oxford Nuclear Microprobe has been used. With the beam a
ligned with a channeling direction of the crystal, protons transmitted
through the thinned samples are detected and images produced showing
the mean transmitted proton energy loss. Regions where dechanneling is
occurring owing to the presence of a defect are revealed. Images of g
roups of misfit dislocations in epitaxial Si1-xGex on Si provide evide
nce of the lattice plane rotation produced by these defects. Stacking
faults have also been imaged, and the choice of the planar channeling
direction enables information on the fault translation vector to be ob
tained.