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Analysis of Experiments in Helium Microbeam Mixing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

John B. Davis ,
R. E. Benenson  and
David Peak
John B. Davis
Affiliation:
Physics Dept., SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY 12222
R. E. Benenson
Affiliation:
Physics Dept., SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY 12222
David Peak
Affiliation:
Physics Dept., Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308
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Abstract

We have continued to investigate ion-beam mixing in bilay-er targets irradiated by 2-MeV He+ microbeams at room temperature. Although we have previously reported a linear dependence of interface width on dose for Cu/Al targets 1, more extensive results have not supported this conclusion, within statistical uncertainty, it appears that the interface width in Cu/Al (1) is proportional to the square root of dose, at constant dose rate, (2) is larger in Al than in Cu, for the same dose, (3) is proportional to the 1/4 power of dose rate, and (4) is absent at liquid nitrogen temperature. Calculations of the expected interface growth rate from a radiation-enhanced diffusion model have provided order-of-magnitude agreement with observed rates. Additionally, intermixing of Cu and Al outside the damaged area may indicate significant transverse diffusion of vacancies.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 235: Symposium A – Phase Formation and Modification by Beam-Solid Interactions , 1991 , 503
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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