Effect of thermal vibration on low-energy collision cascades
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine A
- Vol. 37 (6), 731-748
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01418617808239204
Abstract
Using computer simulation, collision sequences of energy up to 100 eV have been studied in copper at zero and room temperature. The effect of correlated thermal vibration and zero point motion on the length of focused collision sequences, on the energy loss per collision, and on the radius of created Frenkel pairs has been evaluated. Collision sequences along close-packed atomic rows are found to exist for recoil energies well above the focusing energy; however, the length of the sequences is reduced by thermal vibration and zero point motion. A semi-empirical law which relates the energy loss per collision along ⟨110⟩direction with energy and temperature has been derived. Experimental results on the production of Frenkel pairs are discussed.Keywords
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