Physical Review Letters · 1995 · 161 citations · 15 references
Natural SciencesMaterials SciencePhysicsNuclear MaterialsNuclear PhysicsRadiation PhysicsHeavy-ion PhysicsRadiation Damage In MaterialsRadiation Interaction With MatterRadiation Track StructureRadiation Transport In MatterIon Irradiation DamageIrradiation DamageIrradiation EffectsIrradiation Effects On MaterialsMetal Radiation DamageRadiation DamageRadiation Damage MechanismsRadiation Effects
It is shown that new specific effects take place during irradiation of metals with high energy fullerene beams. The observed quasicontinuous damage is confined inside \ensuremath{\sim}20 nm diam cylinders around the projectile paths and is compared to the damage resulting from GeV heavy ion irradiation. The large extension of the highly damaged zones after cluster irradiations might be due to the strong localization of the deposited energy during the slowing-down process.
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Latent Tracks Do Exist in Metallic Materials
A. Barbu, A. Dunlop, D. Lesueur et al. · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 1991 · 168 citations