Evidence for amorphization of a metallic alloy by ion electronic energy loss

A. Audouard, E. Balanzat, S. Bouffard, J. C. Jousset, A. Chamberod, A. Dunlop, D. Lesueur, G. Fuchs, R. Spohr, J. Vetter, and L. Thomé
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 875 – Published 13 August 1990
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Abstract

Crystalline Ni3B ribbons have been irradiated at low temperature with GeV heavy ions (Kr,Xe,U) in order to study the disordering process induced in this material by ion electronic energy loss. The atomic rearrangements produced by irradiation were monitored in situ via electrical resistance measurements and characterized after annealing at room temperature by electron diffraction. The results show a huge electrical resistivity increase above an electronic-energy-loss threshold, which can be ascribed to partial amorphization of the irradiated alloy.

  • Received 23 April 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.875

©1990 American Physical Society

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A. Audouard

  • Service des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse, France
  • Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Université de Nancy I, Boîte Postale 239, 54506 Vanoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

E. Balanzat, S. Bouffard, and J. C. Jousset

  • Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches avec les Ions Lourdes, Rue Claude Bloch, Boîte Postale 5133, 14040 Caen CEDEX, France

A. Chamberod

  • Département de Recherche Fondamentale, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble, 38041 Grenoble, France

A. Dunlop and D. Lesueur

  • IRDI/DMECN/DTECH-SESI, Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France

G. Fuchs

  • Département de Physique des Matériaux, Université Claude Bernard, Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France

R. Spohr and J. Vetter

  • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Postfach 110552, 6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany

L. Thomé

  • Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, Bâtiment 108, 91405 Orsay, France

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Vol. 65, Iss. 7 — 13 August 1990

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