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Title: Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate

Abstract

The synergistic interaction of electronic energy loss by ions with ion-induced defects created by elastic nuclear scattering processes has been investigated for single crystal SrTiO3. An initial pre-damaged defect state corresponding to a relative disorder level of 0.10–0.15 sensitizes the SrTiO3 to amorphous track formation along the ion path of 12 and 20 MeV Ti, 21 MeV Cl and 21 MeV Ni ions, where Ti, Cl and Ni ions otherwise do not produce amorphous or damage tracks in pristine SrTiO3. The electronic stopping power threshold for amorphous ion track formation is found to be 6.7 keV/nm for the pre-damaged defect state studied in this work. Lastly, these results suggest the possibility of selectively producing nanometer scale, amorphous ion tracks in thin films of epitaxial SrTiO3.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1342693
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1418379
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Acta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 127; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; strontium titanante; ion tracks; electronic stopping; SrTiO3; energy dissipation; stopping power; amorphization

Citation Formats

Xue, Haizhou, Zarkadoula, Eva, Liu, Peng, Jin, Ke, Zhang, Yanwen, and Weber, William J. Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051.
Xue, Haizhou, Zarkadoula, Eva, Liu, Peng, Jin, Ke, Zhang, Yanwen, & Weber, William J. Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051
Xue, Haizhou, Zarkadoula, Eva, Liu, Peng, Jin, Ke, Zhang, Yanwen, and Weber, William J. Fri . "Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1342693.
@article{osti_1342693,
title = {Amorphization due to electronic energy deposition in defective strontium titanate},
author = {Xue, Haizhou and Zarkadoula, Eva and Liu, Peng and Jin, Ke and Zhang, Yanwen and Weber, William J.},
abstractNote = {The synergistic interaction of electronic energy loss by ions with ion-induced defects created by elastic nuclear scattering processes has been investigated for single crystal SrTiO3. An initial pre-damaged defect state corresponding to a relative disorder level of 0.10–0.15 sensitizes the SrTiO3 to amorphous track formation along the ion path of 12 and 20 MeV Ti, 21 MeV Cl and 21 MeV Ni ions, where Ti, Cl and Ni ions otherwise do not produce amorphous or damage tracks in pristine SrTiO3. The electronic stopping power threshold for amorphous ion track formation is found to be 6.7 keV/nm for the pre-damaged defect state studied in this work. Lastly, these results suggest the possibility of selectively producing nanometer scale, amorphous ion tracks in thin films of epitaxial SrTiO3.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.051},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 127,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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