TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiation-induced defect clusters in fully stabilized zirconia irradiated with ions and/or electrons
AU - Yasuda, K.
AU - Kinoshita, C.
AU - Matsumura, S.
AU - Ryazanov, A. I.
N1 - Funding Information:
All the irradiations and TEM experiments were carried out in the HVEM Laboratory, Kyushu University and in TIARA at JAERI. We are grateful to M. Kutsuwada and E. Tanaka at Kyushu University and H. Abe at University of Tokyo for their technical assistance to operate ion accelerators and TEMs. This work was supported in part by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) and TEPCO research foundation.
PY - 2003/6/1
Y1 - 2003/6/1
N2 - Microstructure evolution of yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia (YSZ), ZrO2-13 mol% Y2O3, was investigated through transmission electron microscopy under irradiation with electrons and/or ions. Anomalous formation of large defect clusters was found under electron irradiation subsequent to ion irradiation, such as 300 keV O+, 100 keV He+ and 4 keV Ar+ ions. Such defect clusters were not formed solely with ion irradiation. The extended defect clusters possess strong black/black lobes contrast, and are observed preferentially around a focused electron beam at or near dislocations at temperature less than 520 K. The defect clusters were transformed into dislocation network when they reached a critical diameter of about 1.0-1.5 μm, and processes of nucleation, growth and transformation were repeated under electron irradiation. The defect clusters are assumed to be oxygen platelets induced through selective displacements of oxygen ions in YSZ with electron irradiation. An important role of the accumulation of electric charges due to the selective displacements in YSZ is also discussed.
AB - Microstructure evolution of yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia (YSZ), ZrO2-13 mol% Y2O3, was investigated through transmission electron microscopy under irradiation with electrons and/or ions. Anomalous formation of large defect clusters was found under electron irradiation subsequent to ion irradiation, such as 300 keV O+, 100 keV He+ and 4 keV Ar+ ions. Such defect clusters were not formed solely with ion irradiation. The extended defect clusters possess strong black/black lobes contrast, and are observed preferentially around a focused electron beam at or near dislocations at temperature less than 520 K. The defect clusters were transformed into dislocation network when they reached a critical diameter of about 1.0-1.5 μm, and processes of nucleation, growth and transformation were repeated under electron irradiation. The defect clusters are assumed to be oxygen platelets induced through selective displacements of oxygen ions in YSZ with electron irradiation. An important role of the accumulation of electric charges due to the selective displacements in YSZ is also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-3115(03)00136-3
DO - 10.1016/S0022-3115(03)00136-3
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0038446523
SN - 0022-3115
VL - 319
SP - 74
EP - 80
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
T2 - Proceedings of the 8th Inert Matrix Fuel Workshop
Y2 - 16 October 2002 through 18 October 2002
ER -