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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages 1344-1351Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2010.0180
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- United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-97ER45656, DE-AC05-76RL01830]
- United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001089]
- German Science Foundation DFG
- DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research
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The dynamics of track development due to the passage of relativistic heavy ions through solids is a long-standing issue relevant to nuclear materials, age dating of minerals, space exploration, and nanoscale fabrication of novel devices. We have integrated experimental and simulation approaches to investigate nanoscale phase transitions under the extreme conditions created within single tracks of relativistic ions in Gd2O3(TiO2), and Gd2Zr2-x TixO7. Track size and internal structure depend on energy density deposition, irradiation temperature, and material composition. Based on the inelastic thermal spike model, molecular dynamics simulations follow the time evolution of individual tracks and reveal the phase transition pathways to the concentric track structures observed experimentally. Individual ion tracks have nanoscale core-shell structures that provide a unique record of the phase transition pathways under extreme conditions.
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