Effect of Variations in Damage Rate and Gas Deposition Rate During Simultaneous Damage and Gas Injection Experiments

摘要

The variation of both damage rate and gas deposition rate as function of depth into the irradiated material and its importance in simultaneous irradiation damage and gas injection experiments is assessed. The possibility that depth variation in these quantities could mask the features of the high temperature gas-assisted swelling is examined and found to be unlikely. Equally, the possibility of utilizing depth variations to extract more information from a particular experiment is shown to be doubtful. The use of gas atoms alone to provide both the irradiation damage and the gas implantation is examined and the conditions of atom flux and beam energy which must be achieved are qualitatively described. (Atomindex citation 09:407689)