Damage production in atomic displacement cascades in beryllium
The paper presents the results of a molecular dynamics simulation of cascade damage production in beryllium caused by self-ion recoils in the energy range of 0.5–3keV. It is demonstrated that point defects are produced in Be preferentially in well-separated subcascades generated by secondary and hig...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Nuclear Materials and Energy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179115301290 |
| Summary: | The paper presents the results of a molecular dynamics simulation of cascade damage production in beryllium caused by self-ion recoils in the energy range of 0.5–3keV. It is demonstrated that point defects are produced in Be preferentially in well-separated subcascades generated by secondary and higher order recoils. A linear dependence of the point defect number on the primary recoil energy is obtained with the slope that corresponds to formal atom displacement energy of ∼21eV. Most of the damage is created as single defects and the relatively high part of created point defects (∼50%) survives the correlated recombination following the ballistic cascade stage and becomes freely-migrating. |
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| ISSN: | 2352-1791 |