The influence of a'3 twin boundaries on the formation of radiation-induced defect clusters in nanotwinned Cu

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1666-1675

  Demkowicz, Michael J ^a   Anderoglu, Osman ^b   Zhang, Xinghang ^c   Misra, Amit ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain boundaries; Ion implantation; Radiation effects

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MODELING; COLLECTIVE EFFECTS; HE IMPLANTATION; HIGH DOSE; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; INTERSTITIAL CLUSTERS; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; RADIATION INDUCED DEFECTS; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; POINT DEFECTS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 81455159223     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.56     Document Type: Article

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