Effects of temperature on helium bubble behaviour in Fe–9Cr alloy

Yan, Zhanfeng; Yang, Tengfei; Lin, Yanru; Lu, Youping; Su, Yue; Zinkle, Steven J.; Wang, Yugang

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152045

Title: Effects of temperature on helium bubble behaviour in Fe–9Cr alloy

Journal Article · Sat Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Journal of Nuclear Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152045· OSTI ID:1801707

Yan, Zhanfeng ^[1]; Yang, Tengfei ^[2]; Lin, Yanru ^[3]; Lu, Youping ^[4]; Su, Yue ^[4]; Zinkle, Steven J. ^[3]; Wang, Yugang ^[4]

Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Hunan Univ., Changsha (China)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Peking Univ., Beijing (China)

In the present study, Fe–9Cr model alloys were irradiated by 275 keV He⁺ ions at 500 to 800 °C to a peak damage level and implanted helium content of 0.5 dpa and 0.75 at% He, respectively. Effects of temperature on He bubble behaviour were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to reveal the temperature effects. The bubble spatial distribution changes from homogenous at 500 and 600 °C to heterogeneous at 700 and 800 °C, due to preferential bubble precipitation on dislocations and grain boundaries at high temperature. Faceted bubbles with low energy faces along the {001} planes were present at all four temperatures and are attributed to surface energy minimization. Bubble precipitation on the GBs became more pronounced with increasing temperature. Meanwhile, the cavity swelling increased with increasing temperature, from 0.59% at 500 °C to 8.21% at 800 °C with a sharp increase above 700 °C. By analysing the temperature dependence of bubble size and density, a transition temperature between low and high temperature regimes was obtained in terms of different activation energies which are related to different bubble nucleation and formation mechanisms.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0006661

OSTI ID:: 1801707

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1599644

Journal Information:: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 532; ISSN 0022-3115

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