Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation Simulation 

This project  associated with the Sonderforschungsbereich 438, subproject A3.

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Project Rationale

The plasma immersion ion implantation process is of potentially great significance for the modification of surfaces, since in principle it permits the implantation of ions into a surface without the usual line-of-sight restrictions of ion-beam techniques. In this project we are developing a numerical simulation that helps to better understand and model the ion implantation process.

Our approach consists of a coupled finite element simulation for the electric potential and a particle method to trace representative paths of ion from the plasma into the material.

The project is a cooperation of the

Project results/ reports /papers


Ulrich Rüde , 21.1.98, 27.1.98