Does the thermal spike affect low-energy ion-induced interfacial mixing?

Details Does the thermal spike affect low-energy ion-induced interfacial mixing? Does the thermal spike affect low-energy ion-induced interfacial mixing?

2003-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302262v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, 12 figures, Nucl. Instr. Meth. B211, 524. (2003)

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0168-583X(03)01704-X

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to obtain the three-dimensional distribution of interfacial mixing and cascade defects in Ti/Pt multilayer system due to single 1 keV $Ar^+$ impacts at grazing angle of incidence. The Ti/Pt system was chosen because of its relatively high heat of mixing in the binary alloy and therefore a suitable candidate for testing the effect of heat of mixing on ion-beam mixing. However, the calculated mixing profile is not sensitive to the heat of mixing. Therefore the thermal spike model of mixing is not fully supported under these irradiation conditions. Instead we found that the majority of mixing occurs after the thermal spike during the relaxation process. These conclusions are supported by liquid, vacancy as well as adatom analysis. The interfacial mixing is in various aspects anomalous in this system: the time evolution of mixing is leading to a phase delay for Ti mixing, and Pt exhibits an unexpected double peaked mixing evolution. The reasons to these effects are discussed.

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