Behavior of Zr1 %Nb Alloy Under Swift Kr Ion and Intense Electron Irradiation

Authors V.F. Klepikov1 , V.V. Lytvynenko1 , Yu.F. Lonin2 , A.G. Ponomarev2 , O.A. Startsev1 , V.T. Uvarov2
Affiliations

1 Institute of Electrophysics and Radiation Technologies, NAS of Ukraine, 28, Chernyshevsky Str., PO 8812, 61002 Kharkiv, Ukraine

2 NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, NAS of Ukraine, 1, Akademichna Str., 61108 Kharkiv, Ukraine

Е-mail startsev-alex@ukr.net
Issue Volume 7, Year 2015, Number 4
Dates Received 19 August 2015; revised manuscript received 04 December 2015; published online 10 December 2015
Citation V.F. Klepikov, V.V. Lytvynenko, Yu.F. Lonin, et al., J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 7 No 4, 04016 (2015)
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PACS Number(s) 61.80.Fe, 61.82.Bg, 81.40.Wx
Keywords Zirconium (3) , Electron beam (3) , Swift heavy ions (3) , Ablation (2) .
Annotation In this paper there were studied the physical and mechanical properties of Zr1 % Nb alloy irradiated by the Kr ion beam with energy of 107 MeV, fluences of 1·1013 and 1014 ion/cm2, and exposed to the microsecond high-current pulsed electron beam with the energy of 370 keV, incident energy fluence in the range of 20…200 J/cm2. The low-intense Kr ion implantation induced softening of the alloy. The high-intense ion beam irradiation resulted in creation of a surface strengthened layer with nanohardness of 4.5 GPa and the elastic modulus of 120 GPa. The high-current electron beam exposure lead to the macroscopic surface melting of the sample, which provoked formation of the coarse structure with predominantly brittle fracture character.

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