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The Possible Importance of Pressure in Metastable Precipitate Formation in Ion Implanted Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

John H. Evans
John H. Evans*
Affiliation:
Materials Development Division, Harwell Laboratory, Oxon, OX11 ORA, U.K.
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Abstract

Prompted by the recent discovery that the heavier inert gas atoms implanted into metals precipitate in the solid phase, indicative of very high pressures (,>,1 GPa), the present paper discusses the conditions under which such pressures might be expected. The metal/inert gas results are briefly described and then used as a model to show that the two essential features apart from low or moderate metal temperatures, are the insolubility of the implanted species in the host matrix and its precipitation on a very fine scale. This combination suppresses the bias-driven cavity swelling that would otherwise control vacancy acquisition in an irradiation environment.

The extrapolation to other combinations of implanted ion and metal will be discussed. Where the implanted ion is insoluble and precipitates on a scale similar to the inert gas atoms, exact analogy suggests that the precipitates will again be under high pressure. The formation of high pressure phases might not be unexpected and could be a factor in explaining the presence of phases previously thought to be metastable.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 100: Symposium – A Fundamentals of Beam-Solid Interactions and Transient Thermal Processing , 1988 , 219
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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