Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate

Xue, Haizhou; Zarkadoula, Eva; Liu, Peng; Jin, Ke; Zhang, Yanwen; Weber, William J.

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051

Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate

Journal Article · Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051· OSTI ID:1342693

Xue, Haizhou ^[1]; ^[2]; Liu, Peng ^[3]; Jin, Ke ^[2]; Zhang, Yanwen ^[2]; ^[4]

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The synergistic interaction of electronic energy loss by ions with ion-induced defects created by elastic nuclear scattering processes has been investigated for single crystal SrTiO₃. An initial pre-damaged defect state corresponding to a relative disorder level of 0.10–0.15 sensitizes the SrTiO₃ to amorphous track formation along the ion path of 12 and 20 MeV Ti, 21 MeV Cl and 21 MeV Ni ions, where Ti, Cl and Ni ions otherwise do not produce amorphous or damage tracks in pristine SrTiO₃. The electronic stopping power threshold for amorphous ion track formation is found to be 6.7 keV/nm for the pre-damaged defect state studied in this work. Lastly, these results suggest the possibility of selectively producing nanometer scale, amorphous ion tracks in thin films of epitaxial SrTiO₃.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1342693

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1418379

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Journal Name: Acta Materialia Journal Issue: C Vol. 127; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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