NATURE AND STABILITY OF TEM OBSERVED DEFECTS IN 14-MEV NEUTRON-IRRADIATED AU AND CU

被引:15
作者
FUKUSHIMA, H [1 ]
SHIMOMURA, Y [1 ]
GUINAN, MW [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATL LAB,LIVERMORE,CA 94550
关键词
Copper and Alloys - Gold and Alloys--Defects - Microscopic Examination--Transmission Electron Microscopy - Neutrons - Radiation Damage;
D O I
10.1016/0022-3115(88)90497-7
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Cryo-transfer transmission electron microscopy and isochronal annealing experimens have been made on low temperature 14-Mev neutron-irradiated Au, Cu, Cu-0.1 at% Ge and Cu-0.2 at% Ni specimens. A two and a half dimensional stereo analysis has revealed the effects of specimen thickness and neutron dose on the formation of cascade defects. Interstitial-type defects disappear, and some of the submicroscopic vacancy-type defects grow and become visible at the stage-III temperature because of migrating vacancies. Both disappearance and appearance of interstitial-type defects are observed below stage-III, which may be due to beam effects in the electron microscope. Above stage-III, residual interstitial-type defects disappear by absorbing vacancies at the temperature at which vacancy-type defects thermally emit these vacancies and disappear.
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