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From Monday 2 to Friday 6 December 1996, RMIT is celebrating its 
R&D excellence with a program of events and lectures entitled:

Innovation @ work (http://www.rmit.edu.au/innovation.10.html)

Dr Mohamed El Bouanani will present a postdoctoral seminar 
entitled: 'Ion beam development and application in material sciences'.

Speaker:  Dr Mohamed El Bouanani 
Date:  Wednesday 4 December 1996
Time:  3.30 - 4.30 pm
Location:  RMIT City campus, building 8, level 11, room 68

Abstract:

When a high energy beam of charged particles is incident upon a 
target, several processes may occur, eg secondary electron emission, 
nuclear reactions, incident ion scattering, sputtering, recoil of target 
atoms, x-ray production etc.  These processes can be used for 
quantitative characterisation of thin films and near surface of 
materials.

Progress in two areas based on recoil particle detection wand 
analysis will be presented:

i)  Status of the Heavy Ion Recoil Spectrometry as a 'semi-universal' 
ion beam analysis method will be discussed as well as its application 
in the interfacial reactions study of metal/III-V semiconductors used 
in high speed devices and high dielectric constant materials for high 
density and non-volatile memory devices.

ii)  A new detection approach for hydrogen characterisation using a 
(delta)E-E Si telescope and a He-4 ion beam to overcome limitations 
of existing techniques.  The new technique aims to provide better 
depth resolution for analysis as well as internal calibration using the 
Rutherford scattered He-4 ions.

Dr Mohamed El Bouanani

My research activities have concerned the study of the interactions of 
energetic ions with materials, the development and applications of ion 
beams to modify and characterise thin solid films and near surface 
solids.

Nov 1995 - present:  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Physics, 
RMIT.
Sept 1993 - Nov 1995:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Lund Institute of 
Technology, Sweden.
June 1990 - Aug 1993:  Postdoctoral research and teaching activities 
at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I and Ecole Normale Superieure 
de Lyon, France.
Sept 1986 - May 1990:  PhD in Physics, Universite Claude Bernard 
Lyon I, France.