The world seen with ion beams

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10-9 m 10-8 m 10-7 m 10-6 m 10-5 m 10-4 m 10-3 m 10-2 m 10-1 m 100 m 10+1 m 10+2 m 10+3 m 10+4 m 10+5 m 10+10 m 10+15 m

visible spectrumby eye

1 nm1 nanometer

10 nm0,01 mm

100 nm0,1 mm

1 mm1 micrometer

0,01 mm10 mm

0,1 mm100 mm

1 mm1 milimeter

1 cm 10 cm 1 m1 meter

10 m 100 m 1 km1 kilometer 1 ly

1 lightyear1 au

1 astronomic unit: average distance from Sun to Earth

10 km 100 km

150 million km

Nanoworld Microworld World Solar systemInter-stellar space

Protein structure

Nano-structure of nanocrystalline materials Polymer thin films Mineral deposits

Monitoring air pollutionworldwide Interstellar organics

3-D structure (Stonehenge)Ion beam micromachining

Lost polychromy and gilding of Neo-Assyrian ivories

Water on Mars

Contact: Aliz Simon | Aliz.Simon@iaea.org