TY - JOUR
T1 - In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy He+ implantation and thermal aging of nanocrystalline iron
AU - Muntifering, Brittany
AU - Fang, Youwu
AU - Leff, Asher C.
AU - Dunn, Aaron
AU - Qu, Jianmin
AU - Taheri, Mitra L.
AU - Dingreville, Remi
AU - Hattar, Khalid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/12/15
Y1 - 2016/12/15
N2 - The high density of interfaces in nanostructured materials are hypothesized to improve radiation tolerance compared to coarse-grained materials. In order to investigate the roles of vacancies, self-interstitials, and helium, both room temperature in situ TEM He+ implantation and annealing, as well as high temperature He+ implantation was performed on nanocrystalline iron. Dislocation loops are formed by the accumulation of mobile point defects rather than by displacement cascades at intermediate temperatures. Around 600 °C, loops disappeared through gradual shrinking, which is hypothesized to correspond to the annihilation of self-interstitial atoms by mobile vacancies that also resulted in cavity formation. The room temperature implantation resulted in cavities evenly distributed throughout the grain after annealing, whereas cavities were predominately observed at grain boundaries for the elevated temperature implantation. This difference is associated with the formation of stable helium-vacancy complexes in the grains during room temperature implantation, which is not present during high temperature implantation.
AB - The high density of interfaces in nanostructured materials are hypothesized to improve radiation tolerance compared to coarse-grained materials. In order to investigate the roles of vacancies, self-interstitials, and helium, both room temperature in situ TEM He+ implantation and annealing, as well as high temperature He+ implantation was performed on nanocrystalline iron. Dislocation loops are formed by the accumulation of mobile point defects rather than by displacement cascades at intermediate temperatures. Around 600 °C, loops disappeared through gradual shrinking, which is hypothesized to correspond to the annihilation of self-interstitial atoms by mobile vacancies that also resulted in cavity formation. The room temperature implantation resulted in cavities evenly distributed throughout the grain after annealing, whereas cavities were predominately observed at grain boundaries for the elevated temperature implantation. This difference is associated with the formation of stable helium-vacancy complexes in the grains during room temperature implantation, which is not present during high temperature implantation.
KW - Annealing
KW - Helium implantation
KW - In situ TEM
KW - Nanocrystalline iron
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992143279
SN - 0022-3115
VL - 482
SP - 139
EP - 146
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
ER -