%A"McCulloch, D G [Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC (Australia). Dept. of Materials Engineering]" %A"Prawer, S [Melbourne Univ., Parkville, VIC (Australia). School of Physics]" %A"Hoffman, A [Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa (Israel). Dept. of Chemistry]" %D1994 %I; Melbourne Univ., Parkville, VIC (Australia). School of Physics %2Australian Research Council, Canberra, ACT (Australia) %J[] %K75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY, 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE, CARBON, ORDER-DISORDER TRANSFORMATIONS, PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS, AMORPHOUS STATE, ATOMIC DISPLACEMENTS, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, EXPERIMENTAL DATA, GRAPHITIZATION, ION BEAMS, IRRADIATION, RAMAN SPECTRA, TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, XENON IONS, 665300, 360602, INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BEAMS AND CONDENSED MATTER, STRUCTURE AND PHASE STUDIES %PMedium: X; Size: 38 p. %TStructural investigation of xenon ion-beam-irradiated glassy carbon %XRaman spectroscopy, cross-sectional transmission microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy have been used to monitor the ion beam induced transformation in glassy carbon irradiated with 320 keV xenon ions to doses between 5 x 10{sup {sup 1}}2 and 6 x 10{sup 16} ions/cm{sup 2}. It was found that the ion beam amorphizes the glassy carbon structure, the amorphization is accompanied by a compaction of the glassy carbon from an initial density of 1.55 to 2.2 {+-} 0.2 g/cm{sup 3} and that approximately 15% of the graphite-like bonds in glassy carbon are converted to diamond-like bonds in the amorphization process. The transformation occurs in two distinct stages as a function of ion dose. For damage levels up to 0.2 dpa the effect of ion beam is to decrease the average graphitic crystallite size. Above 0.2 dpa, disorder in bond length and bond angle away from ideal graphitic threefold coordination occurs leading to complete amorphization at high doses. The amorphization, compaction and presence of approximative 15% sp{sup 3} bonds in the implanted layer of glassy carbon results in surface layer which is significantly more resistant to abrasion than as-grown glassy carbon. 36 refs., 2 tabs., 11 figs. %0Technical Report %NUM-P-94/52;Other: ON: DE95616777; TRN: AU9414231019040 %1 %CAustralia %Rhttps://doi.org/ Other: ON: DE95616777; TRN: AU9414231019040 INIS %GEnglish