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The Origin of Radiation Resistance of Magnesium Aluminate Spinel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Vasyl T. Gritsyna ,
Yurij G. Kazarinov ,
Volodymyr A. Kobyakov  and
Kurt E. Sickafus
Vasyl T. Gritsyna
Affiliation:
Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv 61077, Ukraine, [email protected]
Yurij G. Kazarinov
Affiliation:
Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv 61077, Ukraine, [email protected]
Volodymyr A. Kobyakov
Affiliation:
Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv 61077, Ukraine, [email protected]
Kurt E. Sickafus
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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Abstract

We propose here a new mechanism to explain the observed high radiation tolerance of magnesium aluminate compounds with crystal structures known as spinel. By using optical methods, we found that the kinetics of accumulation of optical absorption centers under different types of irradiation, as well as the kinetics of absorption decay after termination of irradiation, along with radio-luminescence processes, are consistent with a new model regarding defects and radiation damage in spinel. This model assumes the existence of spatially-correlated antisite defects in the form of dipoles: (Al3+tet)+-(Mg2+oct)-. These spatially-correlated point defect complexes serve as centers for annihilation of radiation-induced cation Frenkel pairs. In addition to the spatially-correlated defects, the high concentration of cation structural vacancies inherent to the spinel lattice also serves to promote high mobility of both Mg and Al interstitial species. This enhanced mobility leads to increased probability of annihilation at the dipole centers proposed in this model. Such annihilation then diminishes the probability for formation of defect clusters, dislocation loops, or amorphization of the irrradiated spinel.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 792: Symposium R – Radiation Effects and Ion Beam Processing of Materials , 2003 , R3.8
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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