Ion beam synthesis of ZrCxOy nanoparticles in cubic zirconia
Abstract
{110}-oriented yttria-stabilized zirconia single crystals have been implanted with low-energy C ions in an axial direction, at room temperature and at 550 °C. Room temperature ion implantation generated a damage layer that contains the expected dislocation loop clusters. Strikingly, the high temperature implantation produced zirconium oxycarbide nanoparticles (ZrCxOy) at a shallow depth in the yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia crystal, with a diameter in the range of 4-10 nm. Moreover, in the high concentration region of implanted C ions, between 100 and 150 nm below the surface, a number of large precipitates, up to 20 nm, were observed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4947521
- Bibcode:
- 2016JAP...119p5902V