Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids
Abstract
Materials exposed to extreme radiation environments such as fusion reactors or deep spaces accumulate substantial defect populations that alter their properties and subsequently the melting behavior. The quantitative characterization requires visualization with femtosecond temporal resolution on the atomic-scale length through measurements of the pair correlation function. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that electron diffraction at relativistic energies opens a new approach for studies of melting kinetics. Our measurements in radiation-damaged tungsten show that the tungsten target subjected to 10 displacements per atom of damage undergoes a melting transition below the melting temperature. Two-temperature molecular dynamics simulations reveal the crucial role of defect clusters, particularly nanovoids, in driving the ultrafast melting process observed on the time scale of less than 10 ps. These results provide new atomic-level insights into the ultrafast melting processes of materials in extreme environments.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[1];
[3];
[1];
[4];
[1];
[1]
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Lancaster Univ., Lancaster (United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom); Univ. Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532401
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1532727
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-19-23684
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; EP/R006288/1; EP/R0029431; FWP #100182; 89233218CNA000001
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Material Science
Citation Formats
Mo, Mianzhen, Murphy, Samuel, Chen, Zhijiang, Fossati, Paul, Li, Renkai, Wang, Yongqiang, Wang, Xijie, and Glenzer, Siegfried. Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw0392.
Mo, Mianzhen, Murphy, Samuel, Chen, Zhijiang, Fossati, Paul, Li, Renkai, Wang, Yongqiang, Wang, Xijie, & Glenzer, Siegfried. Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids. United States. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw0392.
Mo, Mianzhen, Murphy, Samuel, Chen, Zhijiang, Fossati, Paul, Li, Renkai, Wang, Yongqiang, Wang, Xijie, and Glenzer, Siegfried. Fri .
"Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids". United States. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw0392. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532401.
@article{osti_1532401,
title = {Visualization of ultrafast melting initiated from radiation-driven defects in solids},
author = {Mo, Mianzhen and Murphy, Samuel and Chen, Zhijiang and Fossati, Paul and Li, Renkai and Wang, Yongqiang and Wang, Xijie and Glenzer, Siegfried},
abstractNote = {Materials exposed to extreme radiation environments such as fusion reactors or deep spaces accumulate substantial defect populations that alter their properties and subsequently the melting behavior. The quantitative characterization requires visualization with femtosecond temporal resolution on the atomic-scale length through measurements of the pair correlation function. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that electron diffraction at relativistic energies opens a new approach for studies of melting kinetics. Our measurements in radiation-damaged tungsten show that the tungsten target subjected to 10 displacements per atom of damage undergoes a melting transition below the melting temperature. Two-temperature molecular dynamics simulations reveal the crucial role of defect clusters, particularly nanovoids, in driving the ultrafast melting process observed on the time scale of less than 10 ps. These results provide new atomic-level insights into the ultrafast melting processes of materials in extreme environments.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aaw0392},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 5,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {5}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Cited by: 4 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Figures / Tables:
Figure 1: Schematic of the experimental setup. The W targets were pumped by 130-fs and 400-nm laser pulses and probed by UED at megaelectronvolt energies. Radiation damage to the targets at different defect densities was prepared before the pump-probe experiments. The displayed diffraction pattern is the typical fourshot average patternmore »
All figures and tables
(4 total)
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials
journal, April 2008
- Gattass, Rafael R.; Mazur, Eric
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, Issue 4
Simultaneous 8.2 keV phase-contrast imaging and 24.6 keV X-ray diffraction from shock-compressed matter at the LCLS
journal, May 2018
- Seiboth, F.; Fletcher, L. B.; McGonegle, D.
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 22
Characterization of defect clusters in ion-irradiated tungsten by X-Ray diffuse scattering
journal, November 2018
- Sun, Peihao; Wang, Yongqiang; Frost, Mungo
- Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 510
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Laser Melting of Nanocrystalline Au
journal, December 2009
- Lin, Zhibin; Leveugle, Elodie; Bringa, Eduardo M.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, Issue 12
Heterogeneous to homogeneous melting transition visualized with ultrafast electron diffraction
journal, June 2018
- Mo, M. Z.; Chen, Z.; Li, R. K.
- Science, Vol. 360, Issue 6396
Defect-induced melting and solid-state amorphization
journal, March 1992
- Fecht, H. J.
- Nature, Vol. 356, Issue 6365
First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser
journal, August 2010
- Emma, P.; Akre, R.; Arthur, J.
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, Issue 9
Kinetic Limit of Heterogeneous Melting in Metals
journal, May 2007
- Ivanov, Dmitriy S.; Zhigilei, Leonid V.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 19
Comments on vacancies and melting
journal, December 1977
- Górecki, T.
- Scripta Metallurgica, Vol. 11, Issue 12
Materials research for fusion
journal, May 2016
- Knaster, J.; Moeslang, A.; Muroga, T.
- Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 5
Electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity of metals under conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium
journal, February 2008
- Lin, Zhibin; Zhigilei, Leonid V.; Celli, Vittorio
- Physical Review B, Vol. 77, Issue 7
High-energy collision cascades in tungsten: Dislocation loops structure and clustering scaling laws
journal, August 2013
- Sand, A. E.; Dudarev, S. L.; Nordlund, K.
- EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol. 103, Issue 4
Ultrabright X-ray laser scattering for dynamic warm dense matter physics
journal, March 2015
- Fletcher, L. B.; Lee, H. J.; Döppner, T.
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 9, Issue 4
Time-resolved diffraction profiles and atomic dynamics in short-pulse laser-induced structural transformations: Molecular dynamics study
journal, May 2006
- Lin, Zhibin; Zhigilei, Leonid V.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 73, Issue 18
Observations of interface premelting at grain-boundary precipitates of Pb in Al
journal, September 2004
- Dahmen ¶, U.; Hagège, S.; Faudot, F.
- Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 84, Issue 25-26
Experimental demonstration of high quality MeV ultrafast electron diffraction
journal, August 2009
- Li, Renkai; Tang, Chuanxiang; Du, Yingchao
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 80, Issue 8
Mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
journal, July 2015
- Weathersby, S. P.; Brown, G.; Centurion, M.
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 86, Issue 7
Determination of the electron–phonon coupling constant in tungsten
journal, July 2014
- Daraszewicz, Szymon L.; Giret, Yvelin; Tanimura, Hiroshi
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 2
Tungsten interconnects in the nano-scale regime
journal, December 2005
- Steinhögl, W.; Steinlesberger, G.; Perrin, M.
- Microelectronic Engineering, Vol. 82, Issue 3-4
Materials research for fusion energy
journal, February 2006
- Cook, Ian
- Nature Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 2
The Formation of Warm Dense Matter: Experimental Evidence for Electronic Bond Hardening in Gold
journal, February 2009
- Ernstorfer, R.; Harb, M.; Hebeisen, C. T.
- Science, Vol. 323, Issue 5917
Ultrafast thermal melting of laser-excited solids by homogeneous nucleation
journal, February 2002
- Rethfeld, B.; Sokolowski-Tinten, K.; von der Linde, D.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 65, Issue 9
Single-shot mega-electronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction for structure dynamic studies of warm dense matter
journal, August 2016
- Mo, M. Z.; Shen, X.; Chen, Z.
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 11
Neutron diffraction by germania, silica and radiation-damaged silica glasses
journal, February 1969
- Lorch, E.
- Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 2, Issue 2
History of the search for continuous melting
journal, October 1999
- Dash, J. G.
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 71, Issue 5
High-energy x-ray diffraction study of pure amorphous silicon
journal, November 1999
- Laaziri, Khalid; Kycia, S.; Roorda, S.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 60, Issue 19
Femtosecond electron diffraction studies of strongly driven structural phase transitions
journal, April 2004
- Siwick, Bradley J.; Dwyer, Jason R.; Jordan, Robert E.
- Chemical Physics, Vol. 299, Issue 2-3
X-ray Thomson scattering in high energy density plasmas
journal, December 2009
- Glenzer, Siegfried H.; Redmer, Ronald
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 81, Issue 4
Multiscale modelling of plasma–wall interactions in fusion reactor conditions
journal, May 2014
- Nordlund, K.; Björkas, C.; Ahlgren, T.
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 47, Issue 22
Strongly Reduced Penetration of Atomic Deuterium in Radiation-Damaged Tungsten
journal, November 2013
- ’t Hoen, M. H. J.; Mayer, M.; Kleyn, A. W.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 22
Dislocation Lines as the Precursor of the Melting of Crystalline Solids Observed in Monte Carlo Simulations
journal, March 2003
- Gómez, L.; Dobry, A.; Geuting, Ch.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, Issue 9
DL_POLY_3: new dimensions in molecular dynamics simulations via massive parallelism
journal, January 2006
- Todorov, Ilian T.; Smith, William; Trachenko, Kostya
- Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 16, Issue 20, p. 1911-1918
Including the effects of electronic stopping and electron–ion interactions in radiation damage simulations
journal, December 2006
- Duffy, D. M.; Rutherford, A. M.
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 19, Issue 1
The Thermal Expansion of Pure Metals: Copper, Gold, Aluminum, Nickel, and Iron
journal, October 1941
- Nix, F. C.; MacNair, D.
- Physical Review, Vol. 60, Issue 8
An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction
journal, November 2003
- Siwick, Bradley J.; Dwyer, Jason R.; Jordan, Robert E.
- Science, Vol. 302, Issue 5649
Simultaneous 8.2 keV phase-contrast imaging and 24.6 keV X-ray diffraction from shock-compressed matter at the LCLS
text, January 2018
- Seiboth, F.; Fletcher, L. B.; McGonegle, D.
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Figures / Tables found in this record:
Figures/Tables have been extracted from DOE-funded journal article accepted manuscripts.