Abstract
Irradiation of pre-damaged SrTiO3 with 2 MeV He, 1.2 MeV C, 5 MeV C and 12 MeV O ions reveals two regimes of ionization-induced recovery. For C and O ions, with electronic energy loss between 1.6 and 3 keV/nm, recovery cross-sections range from 0.27 to 0.38 nm2, and molecular dynamics confirms recovery related to ionization-induced thermal spikes via electron-phonon coupling. At lower electronic energy losses, recovery cross-sections decrease to about 5.5 × 10−4 nm2 for 2 MeV He ions and 1.0 × 10−5 nm2 for 200 keV electrons, which suggests recovery associated with local electronic excitation processes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 154-157 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Scripta Materialia |
| Volume | 173 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2019 |
Funding
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. The RBS/C analysis was partially supported by the University of Tennessee Governor's Chair program.
Keywords
- Defects
- Molecular dynamics
- Perovskite
- Recovery
- Rutherford backscattering spectrometry/channeling (RBS)