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On the Roles of Temperature and Interfaces in Irradiation and Thermally Induced Solid State Amorphization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

L.M. Wang ,
W.L. Gong ,
R.C. Ewing  and
W.J. Webert
L.M. Wang
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
W.L. Gong
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
R.C. Ewing
Affiliation:
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
W.J. Webert
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352
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Abstract

The roles of irradiation temperature and interfaces (free surfaces and grain boundaries) in irradiation- and thermally- induced amorphization of ceramics (coesite, apatite, olivines and spinels) have been studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The irradiations were performed with 1.5 MeV Kr+, 200 keV and 1 MeV electrons over a wide temperature range (20-700 K). The critical amorphization dose at which amorphization is complete, Dc, increased with increasing irradiation temperature for most materials except coesite (a high pressure polymorph of Si02) which showed a decreasing Dc with increasing temperature under 1 MeV electron irradiation. Although amorphization may occur directly within a displacement cascade or by cascade overlap, this study shows that free surfaces and grain boundaries are favorable sites for nucleation of amorphous volumes. Once the amorphous volume is formed at interfaces, it may grow rapidly under continued irradiation. Coesite which has a glass transition temperature higher than its melting temperature underwent spontaneous amorphization during thermal annealing at 1200 K. This thermally-induced amorphization also started at free surface and grain boundaries and propagated into the interior of the crystal. The interface-mediated amorphization is analogous to the process of thermodynamic melting.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 398: Symposium C – Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations , 1995 , 233
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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