Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

K Nordlund, SJ Zinkle, AE Sand, F Granberg… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Scientific understanding of any kind of radiation effects starts from the primary damage, ie
the defects that are produced right after an initial atomic displacement event initiated by a …

Perspectives on multiscale modelling and experiments to accelerate materials development for fusion

MR Gilbert, K Arakawa, Z Bergstrom, MJ Caturla… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction of material performance in fusion reactor environments relies on computational
modelling, and will continue to do so until the first generation of fusion power plants come on …

Multiscale modelling of defect kinetics in irradiated iron

CC Fu, JD Torre, F Willaime, JL Bocquet, A Barbu - Nature materials, 2005 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in microstructure and mechanical properties of nuclear materials are
governed by the kinetics of defects produced by irradiation. The population of vacancies …

A stable argon compound

L Khriachtchev, M Pettersson, N Runeberg, J Lundell… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The noble gases have a particularly stable electronic configuration, comprising fully filled s
and p valence orbitals. This makes these elements relatively non-reactive, and they exist at …

FIB damage of Cu and possible consequences for miniaturized mechanical tests

D Kiener, C Motz, M Rester, M Jenko… - Materials Science and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Cu specimens were exposed to Ga+ ion bombardment for varying conditions of ion energy,
ion dose, and incident angle in a focussed ion beam workstation. Conventional transmission …

Multiscale modelling of plastic flow localization in irradiated materials

T Diaz de la Rubia, HM Zbib, TA Khraishi, BD Wirth… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The irradiation of metals by energetic particles causes significant degradation of the
mechanical properties,, most notably an increased yield stress and decreased ductility, often …

Simulation of radiation damage in Fe alloys: an object kinetic Monte Carlo approach

C Domain, CS Becquart, L Malerba - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2004 - Elsevier
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels used in current nuclear power plants embrittle as a
consequence of the continuous irradiation with neutrons. Among other radiation effects, the …

Primary radiation damage formation

RE Stoller - Comprehensive nuclear materials, 2012 - ornl.gov
The physical processes that give rise to changes in the microstructure, and the physical and
mechanical properties of materials exposed to energetic particles are initiated by essentially …

Interface enabled defects reduction in helium ion irradiated Cu/V nanolayers

EG Fu, A Misra, H Wang, L Shao, X Zhang - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2010 - Elsevier
Sputter-deposited Cu/V nanolayer films with individual layer thickness, h, varying from 1 to
200nm were subjected to helium (He) ion irradiation at room temperature. At a peak dose …

Recent advances in modeling and simulation of the exposure and response of tungsten to fusion energy conditions

J Marian, CS Becquart, C Domain, SL Dudarev… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors
beyond ITER, structural and plasma-facing materials will be exposed to unprecedented …