50 years of elastic recoil detection: How it started
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The year 2025 celebrates the 50 years of the development of a technique now mainstream in Ion Beam Analysis: Elastic Recoil Detection (ERD). It was born from the need to detect He in a heavy matrix but turned out to be a handy way to depth-profile H at the same time as Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy was carried out to measure heavier elements. Soon after, a time-of-flight version ERD was developed, allowing to obtain separate spectra of each element in a target. This paper gives an account about the context of how it happened, by some of those involved at the time.
Authors: Jacques L’Écuyer, Barney Doyle, Jean-Pierre Martin, Sjoerd Roorda, François Schiettekatte
Institutions: Université de Montréal, Sandia National Laboratories
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,810
Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, Université de Montréal, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, National Nuclear Security Administration, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
Award: G855168022
OpenAlex ID: W7141871004