Published April 1995
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Journal Article
Damage in metals from MeV heavy ions
- Creators
- Tombrello, T. A.
Abstract
Despite the long-held belief that MeV-ion initiated damage in metals arises only from nuclear recoils, recently it has been convincingly established that at high levels of ion energy loss to electronic excitation (∼ 1 keV/Å) the response of some metals is significantly influenced. In this paper I present a simple model of how this occurs that is in good agreement with the extensive experimental data available for damage produced by GeV heavy ions in Fe. The parameters of the model behave in a reasonable fashion for other metals where these effects are observed (Ti, Zr, Co, Nb, and Pt), which suggests that more detailed measurements on these materials could provide a useful check on the model's generality.
Additional Information
© 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grant DMR93-18931). The author wishes to thank Dr. A. Dunlop for calling her experimental data to his attention. In addition, recent preprints by Dr. Max Döbeli were useful in stimulating the thought processes that led to the model given here. James Honaker, as a member of Caltech's Ph11 program for the summer of 1993, played an important role during the initial stages of our discussions of these processes.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 50640
- DOI
- 10.1016/0168-583X(94)00605-9
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20141021-154139479
- DMR93-18931
- NSF
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