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Original Articles

Obstacles for one-dimensional migration of interstitial clusters in iron

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Pages 1489-1504 | Received 10 Mar 2009, Accepted 29 Apr 2009, Published online: 12 Jun 2009
 

Abstract

Interstitial clusters are known to cause frequent one-dimensional (1D) jumps (stepwise positional changes) under electron irradiation around room temperature. The distance of 1D jumps in iron was examined in detail through in-situ observation using high-voltage electron microscopy. The 1D jump distance was found to be longer for smaller clusters in specimens of higher purity, although the distance did not depend on the irradiation beam intensity and electron energy. The distribution of the 1D jump distance was well described by the distribution of the free path of interstitial clusters migrating through randomly distributed impurity atoms. The 1D jump process is considered as fast 1D diffusion of interstitial clusters at low activation energy from the point where the cluster detrapped from an impurity atom to the point where the cluster was trapped again by another impurity. Electron irradiation provides a trigger for causing 1D migration by detrapping of clusters from impurity atoms.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to E. Aoyagi and Y. Hayasaka at the High-Voltage Electron Microscopy Center of Tohoku University for technical support in electron irradiation experiments. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (No. 19560837).

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