Self-supporting thin tin targets fabricated by ultra-high vacuum evaporation for heavy-ion induced reactions

Self-supporting thin films of 116,118Sn isotopes have been fabricated using ultra-high vacuum (UHV) facility at the Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi. Owing to the requirements for fusion and quasi-elastic backscattering studies, several self-supporting thin target films with areal density ~ 250–600 μg/cm2 were fabricated. Attempts were also made to prepare thin films by cold rolling technique, and an areal density of ~ 1.8...