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The Radiation Annealing of Frenkel Defects an Approach Based on a Simple Statistical Model
Author(s) -
Lück G.,
Sizmann R.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.19640050322
Subject(s) - vacancy defect , recombination , annealing (glass) , frenkel defect , irradiation , lattice (music) , statistical physics , deuterium , radiation , materials science , condensed matter physics , physics , molecular physics , atomic physics , chemistry , nuclear physics , thermodynamics , biochemistry , acoustics , gene
Radiation annealing is considered for the particular case of spontaneous recombination of a vacancy and an interstitial which lie closer together than a certain critical distance. By employing a simplified statistical method, a generalized theoretical dose curve is obtained. The theoretical results are applied to experimental data on deuteron‐ and alpha‐irradiated noble metals and nickel. These experimental data suggest that the number of unstable lattice positions of a vacancy around an interstitial, which give rise to the spontaneous recombination, is of the order of 150.