Selective removal of atoms for fabrication of nanostructures with desireable
electric, magnetic and optical properties
Boris A. Gurovich (

), D.I. Dolgiy, E.P. Velihov, E.Z. Meilikhov, and E.A. Kuleshova
RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 123182 Moscow, Kurchatov sq. 1, Russia.
Key circumstance of radical progress for technology of XXI century is the
development of a technique which provides controllable producing
three-dimensional patterns incorporating regions of nanometer sizes and
required physical and chemical properties. Our paper for the first time
proposes the method of purposeful direct transformation of the most important
substance physical properties, such as electrical, magnetic, optical and
others by controllable modification of solid state atomic constitution.
Discovered by us effect of selective atom removing out of thin di- and
polyatomic films by beams of accelerated particles might be the basis of new
non-litography technology. Potentials of that technique have been investigated
and confirmed by our numerous experiments. It has been shown, particularly,
that selective atom removing allows to transform in a controllable way
insulators into metals, non-magnetics into magnetics, to change radically
optical features and some other properties of materials.
The opportunity to remove selectively atoms of a certain sort out of solid
state compounds is, as such, of great interest in creating technology
associated primarily with needs of nanoelectronics as well as many other
“nano-problems” of XXI century.