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Positron studies of hydrogen-defect interactions in proton irradiated molybdenum

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Molybdenum single crystals are irradiated at 20 K with 6 MeV protons. The radiation damage and lattice defect annealing is studied by positron lifetime spectroscopy in the temperature range from 15 to 720 K. Loss of vacancies due to recombination with mobile interstitials is observed at 40 K (Stage I) in agreement with resistivity measurements. This is the first time Stage I is observed by positrons below 77 K. The implanted hydrogen decorates the vacancies around 100 K, which is consistent with a hydrogen migration energy in molybdenum:E H M = 0.3–0.4 eV. Clustering of spatially correlated vacancies takes place in a wide temperature region below the usual vacancy clustering stage (Stage III). Stage III is observed at rather low temperatures (400–480 K) due to the very high vacancy concentration. Hydrogen bound to vacancies and vacancy clusters is released above 540 K, which puts an upper limit to the hydrogen binding energy:E H B ≦1.4 eV. The present work emphasizes the advantage of employing a vacancy sensitive technique to study hydrogen in metals, where its intrinsic solubility is low. In such metals (as molybdenum) both the effective solubility and the effective mobility of hydrogen are strongly influenced by the presence of vacancies.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, SF-40100, Jyväskylä 10, Finland

    H. E. Hansen, R. Talja, H. Rajainmäki & R. M. Nieminen

  2. Laboratory of Applied Physics II, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    H. E. Hansen, H. K. Nielsen & B. Nielsen

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Hansen, H.E., Talja, R., Rajainmäki, H. et al. Positron studies of hydrogen-defect interactions in proton irradiated molybdenum. Appl. Phys. A 36, 81–92 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00620613

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