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 …

[HTML][HTML] Historical review of computer simulation of radiation effects in materials

K Nordlund - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
In this Article, I review the development of computer simulation techniques for studying
radiation effects in materials from 1946 until 2018. These developments were often closely …

Enhancing radiation tolerance by controlling defect mobility and migration pathways in multicomponent single-phase alloys

C Lu, L Niu, N Chen, K Jin, T Yang, P Xiu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A grand challenge in material science is to understand the correlation between intrinsic
properties and defect dynamics. Radiation tolerant materials are in great demand for safe …

Improving atomic displacement and replacement calculations with physically realistic damage models

K Nordlund, SJ Zinkle, AE Sand, F Granberg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atomic collision processes are fundamental to numerous advanced materials technologies
such as electron microscopy, semiconductor processing and nuclear power generation …

Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in concentrated solid solution alloys

Y Zhang, GM Stocks, K Jin, C Lu, H Bei… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A grand challenge in materials research is to understand complex electronic correlation and
non-equilibrium atomic interactions, and how such intrinsic properties and dynamic …

Mechanism of radiation damage reduction in equiatomic multicomponent single phase alloys

F Granberg, K Nordlund, MW Ullah, K Jin, C Lu, H Bei… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Recently a new class of metal alloys, of single-phase multicomponent composition at
roughly equal atomic concentrations (“equiatomic”), have been shown to exhibit promising …

Irradiation effects in carbon nanostructures

F Banhart - Reports on progress in physics, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper reviews the principles of interaction of energetic particles with solid carbon and
carbon nanostructures. The reader is first introduced to the basic mechanisms of radiation …

Direct observation of defect range and evolution in ion-irradiated single crystalline Ni and Ni binary alloys

C Lu, K Jin, LK Béland, F Zhang, T Yang, L Qiao… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Energetic ions have been widely used to evaluate the irradiation tolerance of structural
materials for nuclear power applications and to modify material properties. It is important to …

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 …

Radiation defects in graphite

RH Telling, MI Heggie - Philosophical Magazine, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This article discusses the nature of radiation defects in graphite, reviewing past and recent
developments in understanding their structure, interactions and effect on physical properties …