期刊
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 448, 期 -, 页码 154-162出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.04.077
关键词
XPS; CeO2; Electronic structure; Ionic composition; Thin film; Radiation damage
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资金
- RFBR [17-03-00277a]
- French Network EMIR
- UK EPSRC [EP/I036400/1]
- Radioactive Waste Management Ltd [NPO004411A-EPS02]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [13-03-90916]
- CSAR bursary
This work considers the effect of fission-energy ion irradiation on the electronic structure at the surface of bulk and thin film samples of CeO2 as a simulant for UO2 nuclear fuel. For this purpose, thin films of CeO2 grown on Si substrates and bulk CeO2 samples were irradiated by Xe ions (92 MeV, 4.8 x 10(15) ions/cm(2)) to simulate the fission damage that occurs within nuclear fuels. The irradiated and unirradiated samples were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. A technique of the quantitative evaluation of cerium ionic composition on the surface of the samples has been successfully applied to the obtained XPS spectra. This technique is based on the intensity of only one of the reliably identifiable highenergy peak at 916.6 eV in the Ce 3d XPS spectra. The as-produced samples were found to contain mostly the Ce4+ ions with a small fraction of Ce3+ ions formed on the surface in the air or under X-rays. The coreelectron XPS structure of CeO2 was associated with the complex final state with vacancies (holes) resulting from the photoemission of an inner electron. The Xe ion irradiation was found to increase the Ce3+ content in the samples of CeO2, with the thin films being more sensitive than the bulks samples. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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