Ultrafast visualization of incipient plasticity in dynamically compressed matter

Mo, Mianzhen; Tang, Minxue; Chen, Zhijiang; Peterson, J. Ryan; Shen, Xiaozhe; Baldwin, John Kevin; Frost, Mungo; Kozina, Mike; Reid, Alexander; Wang, Yongqiang; E., Juncheng; Descamps, Adrien; Ofori-Okai, Benjamin K.; Li, Renkai; Luo, Sheng-Nian; Wang, Xijie; Glenzer, Siegfried

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28684-z

Title: Ultrafast visualization of incipient plasticity in dynamically compressed matter

Journal Article · 24 February 2022 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28684-z · OSTI ID:1843036

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SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, Sichuan (China)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
European XFEL GmbH Schenefeld (Germany)

Plasticity is ubiquitous and plays a critical role in material deformation and damage; it inherently involves the atomistic length scale and picosecond time scale. A fundamental understanding of the elastic-plastic deformation transition, in particular, incipient plasticity, has been a grand challenge in high-pressure and high-strain-rate environments, impeded largely by experimental limitations on spatial and temporal resolution. Here, we report femtosecond MeV electron diffraction measurements visualizing the three-dimensional (3D) response of single-crystal aluminum to the ultrafast laser-induced compression. We capture lattice transitioning from a purely elastic to a plastically relaxed state within 5 ps, after reaching an elastic limit of ~25 GPa. Our results allow the direct determination of dislocation nucleation and transport that constitute the underlying defect kinetics of incipient plasticity. Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations show good agreement with the experiment and provide an atomic-level description of the dislocation-mediated plasticity.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1843036

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-20-25942

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 13; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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