Surface physics at Saha Institute

Abstract

We report in this article our present activities on the study of various aspects of surface and interface physics carried out at Surface Physics Division of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. These include growing of materials and their characterization using techniques available at the institute. For growing materials, we have a magnetron sputtering unit, Langmuir-Blodgett trough and polymer spin coater. The analytical tools are grazing incidence X-ray reflectivity, scanning probe microscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry. A set-up to carry out bombardment-induced light emission spectroscopy has been developed to understand the atomic excitation processes in sputtering as well as to explore its potentiality as a surface analytical tool. We have presented some of the recent results obtained in our laboratory.