Modeling injected interstitial effects on void swelling in self-ion irradiation experiments
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Gaston, D.R.
Shao, L.
Garner, F.A.
Short, Michael P
Jin, Miaomiao
Date Issued
October 2015
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Journal of Nuclear Materials
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Elsevier
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Short, M.P. et al. “Modeling Injected Interstitial Effects on Void Swelling in Self-Ion Irradiation Experiments.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 471 (April 2016): 200–207 © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
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Abstract
Heavy ion irradiations at high dose rates are often used to simulate slow and expensive neutron irradiation experiments. However, many differences in the resultant modes of damage arise due to unique aspects of heavy ion irradiation. One such difference was recently shown in pure iron to manifest itself as a double peak in void swelling, with both peaks located away from the region of highest displacement damage. In other cases involving a variety of ferritic alloys there is often only a single peak in swelling vs. depth that is located very near the ion-incident surface. We show that these behaviors arise due to a combination of two separate effects: 1) suppression of void swelling due to injected interstitials, and 2) preferential sinking of interstitials to the ion-incident surface, which are very sensitive to the irradiation temperature and displacement rate. Care should therefore be used in collection and interpretation of data from the depth range outside the Bragg peak of ion irradiation experiments, as it is shown to be more complex than previously envisioned.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.10.002
