A CEMS INVESTIGATION OF FE-57 IMPLANTED IN AL AND CU AT LOW-TEMPERATURE

A new type of CEM-spectrometer allows in situ measurements on metal foils implanted at low temperatures. It has been used to study defect association and clustering of57Fe in Al and Cu. For57Fe Al, the substitutional fraction (fs) in samples implanted at 120 K is somewhat smaller than expected for a random impurity distribution but much larger than after room temperature implantation. For57Fe Cu, fs for samples implanted at 120 K is less than 0.5 of the value expected for a random distribution and it falls to zero after annealing at 600 K, where more extensive Fe clustering occurs. Vacancy trapping in stage III does not contribute significantly to the observed defect sites. © 1990 J.C. Baltzer A.G. Scientific Publishing Company.