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The Study of Structural Disorder in Spinel by ALCHEMI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

I.M. Anderson
I.M. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Metals & Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN37831
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Abstract

The mineral spinel (MgAl2O4) is a candidate material for proposed fusion reactors because of its resistance to structural damage during irradiation. When irradiated to high damage levels, spinel is eventually driven amorphous. However, at lower fluences the nearly cubic close packed arrangement of the oxygen anions remains intact, as indicated by electron diffraction patterns consistent with a face centered cubic Bravais lattice. in this regime, the damage to the material is manifested primarily in the redistribution of the magnesium and aluminum cations among the interstices of the anion sublattice. For ion irradiation, the study of these early stages of damage is well suited to electron beam characterization methods, because the damage is spatially localized at the nearsurface region. Electron diffraction methods have been used for the characterization of cation disorder, but are notoriously unreliable because the similarity in the elastic scattering cross sections offers little discrimination between the magnesium and aluminum cations.

Type
Atom Location by Channeling Enhancement of X-Ray and EELS Signals (ALCHEMI)(organized by J.Spence)
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 7 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001, Microscopy Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 35th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California August 5-9, 2001 , August 2001 , pp. 356 - 357
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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