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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS
Volume 269, Issue 3, Pages 288-291Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.12.024
Keywords
Magnesia; Irradiation damage recovery; High temperature irradiation
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- US Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering
- US Department of Energy's High Temperature Superconductivity (HTS)
- US Department of Energy
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To better appreciate dynamic annealing processes in ion irradiated MgO single crystals of three low-index crystallographic orientations, lattice damage variation with irradiation temperature was investigated. Irradiations were performed with 100 key Ar ions to a fluence of 1 x 10(15) Ar/cm(2) in a temperature interval from -150 to 1100 degrees C. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy combined with ion channeling was used to analyze lattice damage. Damage recovery with increasing irradiation temperature proceeded via two characteristic stages separated by 200 degrees C. Strong radiation damage anisotropy was observed at temperatures below 200 degrees C, with (1 1 0) MgO being the most radiation damage tolerant. Above 200 degrees C damage recovery was isotropic and almost complete recovery was reached at 1100 degrees C. We attributed this orientation dependence to a variation of dynamic annealing mechanisms with irradiation temperature. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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