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Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels
Accelerator-based ion beam irradiation techniques have been used to study radiation effects in materials for decades. Although carbon contamination induced by ion beams in target materials is a well-known issue in some material systems, it has not been fully characterized nor quantified for studies...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5693950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29150617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15669-y |
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author | Wang, Jing Toloczko, Mychailo B. Kruska, Karen Schreiber, Daniel K. Edwards, Danny J. Zhu, Zihua Zhang, Jiandong |
author_facet | Wang, Jing Toloczko, Mychailo B. Kruska, Karen Schreiber, Daniel K. Edwards, Danny J. Zhu, Zihua Zhang, Jiandong |
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description | Accelerator-based ion beam irradiation techniques have been used to study radiation effects in materials for decades. Although carbon contamination induced by ion beams in target materials is a well-known issue in some material systems, it has not been fully characterized nor quantified for studies in ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels that are candidate materials for applications such as core structural components in advanced nuclear reactors. It is an especially important issue for this class of material because of the strong effect of carbon level on precipitate formation. In this paper, the ability to quantify carbon contamination using three common techniques, namely time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS), atom probe tomography (APT), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is compared. Their effectiveness and shortcomings in determining carbon contamination are presented and discussed. The corresponding microstructural changes related to carbon contamination in ion irradiated F/M steels are also presented and briefly discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-56939502017-11-27 Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels Wang, Jing Toloczko, Mychailo B. Kruska, Karen Schreiber, Daniel K. Edwards, Danny J. Zhu, Zihua Zhang, Jiandong Sci Rep Article Accelerator-based ion beam irradiation techniques have been used to study radiation effects in materials for decades. Although carbon contamination induced by ion beams in target materials is a well-known issue in some material systems, it has not been fully characterized nor quantified for studies in ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels that are candidate materials for applications such as core structural components in advanced nuclear reactors. It is an especially important issue for this class of material because of the strong effect of carbon level on precipitate formation. In this paper, the ability to quantify carbon contamination using three common techniques, namely time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS), atom probe tomography (APT), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is compared. Their effectiveness and shortcomings in determining carbon contamination are presented and discussed. The corresponding microstructural changes related to carbon contamination in ion irradiated F/M steels are also presented and briefly discussed. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5693950/ /pubmed/29150617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15669-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Jing Toloczko, Mychailo B. Kruska, Karen Schreiber, Daniel K. Edwards, Danny J. Zhu, Zihua Zhang, Jiandong Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title | Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title_full | Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title_fullStr | Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title_full_unstemmed | Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title_short | Carbon Contamination During Ion Irradiation - Accurate Detection and Characterization of its Effect on Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Steels |
title_sort | carbon contamination during ion irradiation - accurate detection and characterization of its effect on microstructure of ferritic/martensitic steels |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5693950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29150617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15669-y |
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