Novel phenomena of irradiation damage in FCC metals irradiated with high-energy electrons at low temperatures

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 495-502

  Niwase, Keisuke ^a   Phillipp, Fritz ^b   Sigle, Wilfried ^b   Seeger, Alfred ^b  

^a HYOGO UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

FCC; Metals; Nanohole; Self organization; SFT; TEM; Voids

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRONS; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS;

FACE-CENTERED CUBIC METALS; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON; IRRADIATION DAMAGE; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; NANOGROOVES; NANOHOLES; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; STACKING FAULT TETRAHEDRON; TEM; VOID;

ELECTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 0032721129     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jmicro.a023707     Document Type: Article

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