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Damage in Refractory Oxides and ion Beam Mixing at Metal-Oxide Interfaces Induced by Gev Ions and 20 Mev Cluster Beam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

P.A. Thevenard
Affiliation:
Université Claude Bernard - LYON I, Département de Physique des Matériaux 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, pthev@dpm.univ-lyon1.fr
M. Beranger
Affiliation:
Université Claude Bernard - LYON I, Département de Physique des Matériaux 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, pthev@dpm.univ-lyon1.fr
B. Canut
Affiliation:
Université Claude Bernard - LYON I, Département de Physique des Matériaux 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, pthev@dpm.univ-lyon1.fr
S.M.M. Ramos
Affiliation:
Université Claude Bernard - LYON I, Département de Physique des Matériaux 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, pthev@dpm.univ-lyon1.fr
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Abstract

Defect creation in refractory oxides known to be unsensitive to radiolysis, was shown to take place by high level electronic excitations induced by swift heavy ions or energetic cluster bombardments. Depending on the oxide a threshold in electronic energy loss for damage production was observed : MgO 22 keV/nm, AI2O3 20 keV/nm and LiNbO3 6 keV/nm. A very strong dependence on the energy deposited for the defect production was evidenced above the threshold. In MgO, both point and extended defects were created whereas in AI2O3 only extended defects were observed and in LiNbO3 amorphization in the ion track was evidenced.

Atomic displacements due to the giant electronic excitations can be revealed at metal-oxide interfaces in the case of Na nanoprecipitates embedded in MgO single crystals.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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