Hillocks created for amorphizable and non-amorphizable ceramics irradiated with swift heavy ions: TEM study
Hillocks created for amorphizable and non-amorphizable ceramics irradiated with swift heavy ions: TEM study
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为经快速重离子辐照的非晶化和非非晶化陶瓷而产生的小丘:TEM 研究
DOI:
10.1088/1361-6528/aa8778
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发表时间:
2017
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Okubo N
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作者:
Ishikawa N;Taguchi T;Okubo N
In a previous study, we found that hillocks (ie surface ion tracks) can be imaged using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) by irradiating thin CeO 2 samples with swift heavy ions (SHI) at oblique incidence. In the present study, the same TEM method is applied to Y 3 Fe 5 O 12 (YIG) and three fluorides (CaF 2, SrF 2 and BaF 2) for observing hillocks. For YIG, which is one of the amorphizable materials, hillocks are found to have amorphous features consistent with amorphous features of ion tracks. For the fluorides, it is found that the hillocks do not exhibit amorphous features, and they are composed of nanocrystallites. Although hillocks for YIG and CaF 2 exhibit different crystallographic features, hillock diameter agrees with the molten region diameter predicted by the thermal spike model for both materials. It is found that for YIG the hillock diameter is comparable to the ion track diameter, whereas for the fluorides it is always larger than the ion track diameter. The present result shows the existence of the velocity effect for ion track diameter in CaF 2. It is also found that for fluorides both hillock and ion track diameters vary in the order of cation mass (ie CaF 2< SrF 2< BaF 2). The above results of hillocks and ion tracks for SHI-irradiated fluorides can be consistently interpreted within the framework of the thermal spike model, if melting and successive recrystallization are assumed.