The effect of excess atomic volume on He bubble formation at fccbcc interfaces Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Atomistic modeling shows that Cu-Nb and Cu-V interfaces contain high excess atomic volume due to constitutional vacancy concentrations of 5 at. % and 0.8 at. %., respectively. This finding is supported by experiments demonstrating that an approximately fivefold higher He concentration is required to observe He bubbles via through-focus transmission electron microscopy at Cu-Nb interfaces than in Cu-V interfaces. Interfaces with structures tailored to minimize precipitation and growth of He bubbles may be used to design damage-resistant composites for fusion reactors. 2010 American Institute of Physics.

published proceedings

  • Applied Physics Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Demkowicz, M. J., Bhattacharyya, D., Usov, I., Wang, Y. Q., Nastasi, M., & Misra, A.

citation count

  • 90

complete list of authors

  • Demkowicz, MJ||Bhattacharyya, D||Usov, I||Wang, YQ||Nastasi, M||Misra, A

publication date

  • October 2010