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Radiation damage near grain boundaries

Maximo Pedro Victoria
2003
Journal Articles

Abstract

Large-scale molecular dynamics of cascade production of the primary damage state are performed in nanocrystalline nickel with an average grain diameter of 12 nm and primary knock-on atom kinetic energies ranging from 5 to 30 keV. The role of the grain boundary during the cascade production of irradiated NC Ni is discussed in terms of grain-boundary structure. It is shown that regions of misfit in the grain boundaries can absorb self-interstitials and that stacking-fault tetrahedra are formed in the neighbourhood of the grain boundary.

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Maximo Pedro Victoria
2003
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/86c3da5d-24ea-4db0-a9d6-8fd634f9d5a0

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