Published August 15, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Optical property degradation of titanium dioxide micro- and nanopowders under irradiation

  • 1. Radiation and Space Materials Laboratory, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-electronics, Tomsk, Tomsk Region 634050 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Science and Technology on Material Performance Evaluating in Space Environment Laboratory, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150001 (China)
  • 3. Space Materials Laboratory, Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region 675027 (Russian Federation)

Description

Diffuse reflection spectra and absorption spectra of titanium dioxide (anatase) micro- and nanopowders induced by exposure to 100 keV protons and electrons were analyzed at wavelengths between 250 and 2500 nm. It is established that the radiation stability of the nanopowders is higher than the micropowders in the absorption region λ > 500 nm for proton and electron exposure. This effect is caused by the high concentration of radiation defects in micropowders, which is associated with defects of interstitial titanium ions (Tii···, Tii····), titanium vacancies (VTi, VTi ) and oxygen vacancies VOX

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2014.04.014

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nimb.2014.04.014;
PII
S0168-583X(14)00516-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Journal Volume
333
Journal Page Range
p. 52-57
ISSN
0168-583X
CODEN
NIMBEU

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