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Title: A coupled effect of nuclear and electronic energy loss on ion irradiation damage in lithium niobate

Abstract

Understanding irradiation effects induced by elastic energy loss to atomic nuclei and inelastic energy loss to electrons in a crystal, as well as the coupled effect between them, is a scientific challenge. Damage evolution in LiNbO3 irradiated by 0.9 and 21 MeV Si ions at 300 K has been studied utilizing Rutherford backscattering spectrometry in channeling mode. During the low-energy ion irradiation process, damage accumulation produced due to elastic collisions is described utilizing a disorder accumulation model. Moreover, low electronic energy loss is shown to induce observable damage that increases with ion fluence. For the same electronic energy loss, the velocity of the incident ion could affect the energy and spatial distribution of excited electrons, and therefore effectively modify the diameter of the ion track. Furthermore, nonlinear additive phenomenon of irradiation damage induced by high electronic energy loss in pre-damaged LiNbO3 has been observed. The result indicates that pre-existing damage induced from nuclear energy loss interacts synergistically with inelastic electronic energy loss to promote the formation of amorphous tracks and lead to rapid phase transformation, much more efficient than what is observed in pristine crystal solely induced by electronic energy loss. As a result, this synergistic effect is attributed tomore » the fundamental mechanism that the defects produced by the elastic collisions result in a decrease in thermal conductivity, increase in the electron-phonon coupling, and further lead to higher intensity in thermal spike from intense electronic energy deposition along high-energy ion trajectory.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [3];  [5];  [2]
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  1. Shandong Univ., Jinan (China); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1265946
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1352942
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; 11405097
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Acta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; lithium niobate; radiation damage; coupled model; irradiation effect; order to disorder phase transformation; microstructure formation mechanism

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Liu, Peng, Zhang, Yanwen, Xue, Haizhou, Jin, Ke, Crespillo, Miguel L., Wang, Xuelin, and Weber, William J. A coupled effect of nuclear and electronic energy loss on ion irradiation damage in lithium niobate. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.048.
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Liu, Peng, Zhang, Yanwen, Xue, Haizhou, Jin, Ke, Crespillo, Miguel L., Wang, Xuelin, & Weber, William J. A coupled effect of nuclear and electronic energy loss on ion irradiation damage in lithium niobate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.048
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Liu, Peng, Zhang, Yanwen, Xue, Haizhou, Jin, Ke, Crespillo, Miguel L., Wang, Xuelin, and Weber, William J. Sat . "A coupled effect of nuclear and electronic energy loss on ion irradiation damage in lithium niobate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.048. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265946.
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@article{osti_1265946,
title = {A coupled effect of nuclear and electronic energy loss on ion irradiation damage in lithium niobate},
author = {Liu, Peng and Zhang, Yanwen and Xue, Haizhou and Jin, Ke and Crespillo, Miguel L. and Wang, Xuelin and Weber, William J.},
abstractNote = {Understanding irradiation effects induced by elastic energy loss to atomic nuclei and inelastic energy loss to electrons in a crystal, as well as the coupled effect between them, is a scientific challenge. Damage evolution in LiNbO3 irradiated by 0.9 and 21 MeV Si ions at 300 K has been studied utilizing Rutherford backscattering spectrometry in channeling mode. During the low-energy ion irradiation process, damage accumulation produced due to elastic collisions is described utilizing a disorder accumulation model. Moreover, low electronic energy loss is shown to induce observable damage that increases with ion fluence. For the same electronic energy loss, the velocity of the incident ion could affect the energy and spatial distribution of excited electrons, and therefore effectively modify the diameter of the ion track. Furthermore, nonlinear additive phenomenon of irradiation damage induced by high electronic energy loss in pre-damaged LiNbO3 has been observed. The result indicates that pre-existing damage induced from nuclear energy loss interacts synergistically with inelastic electronic energy loss to promote the formation of amorphous tracks and lead to rapid phase transformation, much more efficient than what is observed in pristine crystal solely induced by electronic energy loss. As a result, this synergistic effect is attributed to the fundamental mechanism that the defects produced by the elastic collisions result in a decrease in thermal conductivity, increase in the electron-phonon coupling, and further lead to higher intensity in thermal spike from intense electronic energy deposition along high-energy ion trajectory.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.048},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = ,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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