| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1565407 | Journal of Nuclear Materials | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Nano-structured zirconium nitride layers – on Si substrates – of various thicknesses (0.1, 3, 10 and 20 μm) were irradiated with 167 MeV Xe, 250 MeV Kr and 695 MeV Bi ions to fluences in the range from 3 × 1012 to 2.6 × 1015 cm−2 for Xe, 1 × 1013 to 7.06 × 1013 cm−2 for Kr and 1012 to 1013 cm−2 for Bi. The purpose of these irradiation experiments is to simulate the effects of fission fragment bombardment on nanocrystalline ZrN. The irradiated layers where subsequently analysed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and nano-indentation hardness testing (NIH) techniques. XRD, TEM and NIH results indicate that ZrN has a very high tolerance to the effects of high energy irradiation.
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Authors
A. Janse van Vuuren, V.A. Skuratov, V.V. Uglov, J.H. Neethling, S.V. Zlotski,