Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T07:42:07.706Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Effects of Ion Beam Bombardment on the Crystalline Structure of Polymers: The Case of Pet+

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

R.M. Prppleo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Fisica
M.R. Rrrujo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Quimica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Campus do Vale, 91500, Porto Rlegre, RS, Brasil
R.P. Livi
Affiliation:
Instituto de Fisica
Get access

Abstract

We discuss the amorphization process of semicrystalline and oriented PET (Polytethyleneterephtal ate)) thin toils by ion beam irradiation. P decrease in the bombarded samples melting point and enthalpy of fusion in the bombarded samples, as analysed by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), is associated with changes in the crystalline morphology and with an increase in the polymer disordered regions. Those facts are confirmed atso by a large decrease in the main X-ray diffraction peak amplitude as the tluence increases. P model of ion induced amorphization originally constructed for metals and semiconductors 11,23 was applied and cross-sections tor the process were obtained. The experimental data are well fitted using this model based on amorphization through the overlap of damage clusters, but an exclusive elastic collisions mechanism for the damage production cannot be inferred. As expected the electronic stopping mechanism also plays an important role in the polymer amorphization process.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1 Drigo, A.V., Berti, M., flenyogoub, A., Bernas, H., Pivin, J.C., Pons, F., Thome, L. and Cohen, C., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B19/20, 533 (1987).Google Scholar
2 Gibbons, J.F., Proc. IEEE 60, 1062 (1972).Google Scholar
3 Venkatesan, T., CaLgano, L., Elman, B.S. and Foti, G., in Ion Implantation in Insulators, edited by Mazioldi, P. and Arnold, G.W. (ELsevier Science Publishers, New York, 1986) p. 301379.Google Scholar
4 Brown, W.L., Radiat. Eff. 99, 281 (1986).Google Scholar
5 Chapiro, R., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B(32) 111 (1988).Google Scholar
6 Puglisi, O., Licciardello, O., Galgano, L. and Foti, G., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B19/20, 865 (1987).Google Scholar
7 Calgano, L. and Foti, G., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B19/20, 895 (1987).Google Scholar
8 Nunderlich, B., Macromolecule Physics, (Academic Press, New York, 1973), v. 1, p. 401408.Google Scholar
9 Mukherjee, A.K., Gupta, B.D. and Sharma, P.K., J.M.S. - Rev. Macromol. Chem. Phys. C 26 (3), p. 415439 (1986)Google Scholar