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Investigations into electronic stoppping regime sputtering of uranium tetrafluoride

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6699097
Yields were measured for /sup 235/U sputtered from UF/sub 4/ by /sup 16/O, /sup 19/F, and /sup 35/Cl over the energy range ca.12 to 1.5 MeV/amu using a charge equilibrated beam in the stripped beam arrangement for all the incident ions and in the transmission arrangement for /sup 19/F and /sup 35/Cl. In addition, yields were measured for /sup 19/F incident in a wide range of discrete charge states. The angular dependence of all the measured yields were consistent with cos theta. The stripped beam and transmission data were well fit by the form (Az/sup 2//sub eq/1n(B..sigma..)/..sigma../sup 4/ where ..sigma.. was the ion energy in MeV/amu and Z/sub eq/(..sigma..) was taken from Zeigler (80). The fitted values of B for the various sets of data were consistent with a constant B/sub 0/ equal to 36.3 +- 2.7, independent of incident ion. The fitted values of A show no consistent variation with incident ion although a difference can be noted between the stripped beam and transmission values, the transmission values being higher. The incident charge data were well fit by the assumptions that the sputtering yield depended locally on a power of the incident ion charge and that the sputtering from the surface is exponentially correlated to conditions in the bulk. The equilibrated sputtering yields derived from these data are in agreement with the stripped beam yields.
Research Organization:
California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena (USA)
OSTI ID:
6699097
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English