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 …

Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

[HTML][HTML] Ion and electron irradiation-induced effects in nanostructured materials

AV Krasheninnikov, K Nordlund - Journal of applied physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A common misconception is that the irradiation of solids with energetic electrons and ions
has exclusively detrimental effects on the properties of target materials. In addition to the …

[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 …

Defect production in collision cascades in elemental semiconductors and fcc metals

K Nordlund, M Ghaly, RS Averback, M Caturla… - Physical Review B, 1998 - APS
A comparative molecular dynamics simulation study of collision cascades in two elemental
semiconductors and five fcc metals is performed to elucidate how different material …

[LIBRO][B] Islands, mounds and atoms

T Michely, J Krug - 2012 - books.google.com
Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

Making waves: kinetic processes controlling surface evolution during low energy ion sputtering

WL Chan, E Chason - Journal of applied physics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
When collimated beams of low energy ions are used to bombard materials, the surface often
develops a periodic pattern or “ripple” structure. Different types of patterns are observed to …

Molecular dynamics investigations of surface damage produced by kiloelectronvolt self-bombardment of solids

M Ghaly, K Nordlund, RS Averback - Philosophical Magazine A, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular dynamics computer simulations were employed to study damage production
mechanisms at solid surfaces during bombardment with kiloelectronvolt ions. Three …

Influence of ion energy and substrate temperature on the optical and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films

M Chhowalla, J Robertson, CW Chen… - Journal of Applied …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
The properties of amorphous carbon (aC) deposited using a filtered cathodic vacuum arc as
a function of the ion energy and substrate temperature are reported. The sp 3 fraction was …

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 …