Role of composition, bond covalency, and short-range order in the disordering of stannate pyrochlores by swift heavy ion irradiation

Tracy, Cameron L.; Shamblin, Jacob; Park, Sulgiye; Zhang, Fuxiang; Trautmann, Christina; Lang, Maik; Ewing, Rodney C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.064102

Title: Role of composition, bond covalency, and short-range order in the disordering of stannate pyrochlores by swift heavy ion irradiation

Journal Article · Wed Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.064102· OSTI ID:1387936

Tracy, Cameron L. ^[1]; Shamblin, Jacob ^[2]; Park, Sulgiye ^[1]; Zhang, Fuxiang ^[3]; Trautmann, Christina ^[4]; Lang, Maik ^[2]; Ewing, Rodney C. ^[1]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany); Technische Univ., Darmstadt (Germany)

A₂Sn₂O₇ (A = Nd, SM, Gd, Er, Yb, and Y) materials with the pyrochlore structure were irradiated with 2.2 GeV Au ions to systematically investigate disordering of this system in response to dense electronic excitation. Structural modifications were characterized, over multiple length scales, by transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy. Transformations to amorphous and disordered phases were observed, with disordering dominating the structural response of materials with small A -site cation ionic radii. Both the disordered and amorphous phases were found to possess weberite-type local ordering, differing only in that the disordered phase exhibits a long-range, modulated arrangement of weberite-type structural units into an average defect-fluorite structure, while the amorphous phase remains fully aperiodic. Comparison with the behavior of titanate and zirconate pyrochlores showed minimal influence of the high covalency of the Sn-O bond on this phase behavior. Finally, an analytical model of damage accumulation was developed to account for simultaneous amorphization and recrystallization of the disordered phase during irradiation.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Materials Science of Actinides (MSA)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001089; DMR-1332208

OSTI ID:: 1387936

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Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 6; Related Information: MSA partners with University of Notre Dame (lead); University of California, Davis; Florida State University; George Washington University; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oregon state University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Savannah River National Laboratory; ISSN 2469-9950

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