Microstructure of ion-bombarded FeTi and FeTiC multilayered films Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Ion-beam-induced microstructure of the iron-rich end of the FeTi and FeTiC systems was studied by using multilayered thin-film samples with a linearly varying composition of the metallic constituents. The ion bombardment was carried out using Xe++ ions at 600 keV. A mixing of iron and titanium in binary samples was complete after a bombardment with 81015 ions/cm2 whereas FeTiC samples were only partially mixed after the fluence of 1.81016 ions/cm2. Transmission electron microscope studies revealed that the microstructure of FeTi samples was amorphous or amorphous and crystalline iron over a wide range of the compositions investigated. In the case of FeTiC, the microstructure consisted of crystalline iron and titanium together with a very little amorphous phase.

published proceedings

  • Journal of Applied Physics

author list (cited authors)

  • Hirvonen, J., Nastasi, M., & Mayer, J. W.

citation count

  • 45

complete list of authors

  • Hirvonen, J-P||Nastasi, M||Mayer, JW

publication date

  • August 1986