Predicting displacement damage for ion irradiation: Origin of the overestimation of vacancy production in SRIM full-cascade calculations

YR Lin, SJ Zinkle, CJ Ortiz, JP Crocombette… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ion irradiation and implantation have wide applications that demand accurate determination
of displacement damage profile and distribution of implanted ion concentration. The …

Quantifying defect production in solids at finite temperatures: Thermally-activated correlated defect recombination corrections to DPA (CRC-DPA)

SJ Zinkle, RE Stoller - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
It has long been recognized from low-temperature defect production experiments and
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of displacement events in metals that the surviving …

Thermodynamic properties on the homologous temperature scale from direct upsampling: Understanding electron-vibration coupling and thermal vacancies in bcc …

A Forslund, JH Jung, P Srinivasan, B Grabowski - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We have calculated thermodynamic properties of four bcc refractory elements—V, Ta, Mo,
and W—up to the melting point with full density-functional-theory accuracy, using the …

Calculation of the recombination radii between various point defects and defect clusters in nickel via kinetic Activation Relaxation Technique

H Sun, LK Béland - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The recombination radii between various point defects and defect clusters are essential
input parameters for mathematical and computational models of radiation-induced damage …

Simulation of threshold displacement energy in Fe-Cr-Al alloys using molecular dynamics

T Ye, Y Wu, Z Wang, J Zhang, M Wang, P Chen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
The threshold displacement energy of Fe and Fe-Cr-Al alloys and the influence factors were
investigated using molecular dynamic simulations. The mechanism of defect recombination …

Formation of< 100> vacancy dislocation loops from two-dimensional vacancy platelets in body-centered cubic iron

Y Yang, Y Ni, X Liu, L He - Journal of Materials Science, 2024 - Springer
The< 100> vacancy dislocation loop is a unique defect of radiation damage in ferritic steels
for advanced nuclear systems, but the mechanism responsible for the loop formation …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of yield strength due to neutron irradiation in a pressure vessel of WWER-1000 reactor based on the correction of the secondary displacement …

E Moslemi-Mehni, F Khoshahval, R Pour-Imani… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to neutron radiation, atomic displacement has a significant effect on material in nuclear
reactors. A range of secondary displacement models, including the Kinchin-Pease (K–P) …