TY - GEN TI - Production and characterization of micro-size pores for ion track etching applications T3 - 10th Anniversary International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research and Application (NANOCON 2018) AU - Cannavó, Antonino AB - For many years the applications of ion track etch materials have increased considerably, like charged particles detection, molecular identification with nanopores, ion track filters, magnetic studies with nanowires and so on. Over the materials generally used as track detector, the Poly-Allyl-Diglycol Carbonate (PADC), offers many advantages, like its nearly 100 % detection efficiency for charged particle, a high resistance to harsh environment, the lowest detection threshold, a high abrasion resistance and a low production costs. All of these properties have made it particularly attractive material, even if due to its brittleness, obtaining a thin film (less than 500 μm) is still a challenge. In this work, PADC foils have been exposed to a-particles emitted by a thin radioactive source of 241Am and to C ions from the Tandetron 4130 MC accelerator. The latent tracks generated in the polymer have been developed using a standard etching procedure in 6.25 NaOH solution. The dependence of the ion tracks' geometry on the ion beam energy and fluence has been evaluated combining the information obtained through a semiautomatic computer script that selects the etched ion tracks according to their diameter and mean grey value and nanometric resolution images by atomic force microscopy. SN - 978-808729489-5 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0295759 UR - http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-394335 A2 - Vacík, Jiří A2 - Torrisi, L. A2 - Ceccio, Giovanni A2 - Havránek, Vladimír A2 - Torrisi, Alfio A2 - Lavrentiev, Vasyl A2 - Horák, Pavel A2 - Cutroneo, Mariapompea LA - eng KW - PADC polymer KW - AFM KW - image analysis PY - 2019 PB - Ústav jaderné fyziky, Husinec - Řež 130, 250 68 Řež, http://www.ujf.cas.cz/ ER -