Gavirini, Vikram and Bhattacharya, Kaushik and Ortiz, Michael (2007) Vacancy clustering and prismatic dislocation loop formation in aluminum. Physical Review B, 76 (18). Art. No. 180101. ISSN 1098-0121. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:GAVprb07
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Abstract
The formation of prismatic dislocation loops is an important factor leading to radiation damage of metals. However, the formation mechanism and the size of the smallest stable loop has remained unclear. In this Rapid Communication, we use electronic structure calculations with millions of atoms to address this problem in aluminum. Our results show that there is a cascade of larger and larger vacancy clusters with smaller and smaller energy. Further, the results show that a seven vacancy cluster on the (111) plane can collapse into a stable prismatic loop. This supports the long-standing hypothesis that vacancy clustering leads to a prismatic loop, and that these loops can be stable at extremely small sizes. Finally our results show that it is important to conduct calculations using realistic concentrations (computational cell size) to obtain physically meaningful results.
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Additional Information: | ©2007 The American Physical Society. (Received 9 October 2007; published 15 November 2007). The financial support of the Army Research Office under MURI Grant No. DAAD19-01-1-0517 and the support of the Department of Energy through Caltech’s ASC Center for the Simulation of the Dynamic Response of Materials is gratefully acknowledged. | ||||||
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Subject Keywords: | aluminium; dislocation loops; radiation effects; vacancies (crystal) | ||||||
Issue or Number: | 18 | ||||||
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