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Electric Conductivity of Vitreous Silica during Pulsed-Electron-Beam Irradiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Stanley H. Stern  and
Ralph B. Fiorito
Stanley H. Stern
Affiliation:
Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
Ralph B. Fiorito
Affiliation:
Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
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Abstract

We describe a measurement of the transient conductivity induced in amorphous SiO2 during irradiation by an intense and energetic electron beam. Preliminary results of an experiment [1] we performed at the Pulsed High - Energy Radiographic Machine Emitting X Rays (PHERMEX) facility of Los Alamos National Laboratory indicate that a beam of electrons of energy 17.5 MeV, of current density 1 kA/cm2, and of micropulse duration 3 nsec induce in a-SiO2 an electric conductivity 007E 6 × 10-3 (03A9-cm)-1. This value is 15 orders of magnitude larger than the ordinary (ionic) conductivity of the material [2].

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 35: Symposium A – Energy Beam-Solid Interactions and Transient Thermal Processing/1984 , 1984 , 233
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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