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Swelling of SiO2 Quartz Induced by Energetic Heavy Ions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

C. Trautmann ,
J. M. Costantini ,
A. Meftah ,
K. Schwartz ,
J. P. Stoquert  and
M. Toulemonde
C. Trautmann
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft fuir Schwerionenforschung, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany, C.Trautmann@gsi.de
J. M. Costantini
Affiliation:
DPTA/PMC, BP 12, 91680 Bruyères-Le-Châtel, France
A. Meftah
Affiliation:
ENSET, BP 26 Merj-eddib, 21000 Skikda, Algeria
K. Schwartz
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft fuir Schwerionenforschung, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany, C.Trautmann@gsi.de
J. P. Stoquert
Affiliation:
Laboratoire PHASE, 67037 Strasbourg - cedex 2, France
M. Toulemonde
Affiliation:
CIRIL, Laboratoire commun CEA/CNRS, BP 5133, 14070 Caen-cedex 5, France
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Abstract

A pronounced swelling effect occurs when irradiating SiO2 quartz with heavy ions (F, S, Cu, Kr, Xe, Ta, and Pb) in the electronic energy loss regime. Using a profilometer, the out-of-plane swelling was measured by scanning over the border line between an irradiated and a virgin area of the sample surface. The step height varied between 20 and 300 nm depending on the fluence, the electronic energy loss and the total range of the ions. From complementary Rutherford backscattering experiments under channelling condition (RBS-C), the damage fraction and corresponding track radii were extracted. Normalising the step height per incoming ion and by the projected range, a critical energy loss of 1.8 ± 0.5 keV/nm was found which is in good agreement with the threshold observed by RBS-C. Swelling can be explained by the amorphisation induced along the ion trajectories. The experimental results in quartz are compared to swelling data obtained under similar irradiation conditions in LiNbO3

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 504: Symposium KK – Atomistic Mechanisms in Beam Synthesis & Irradiation… , 1997 , 123
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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