Published July 1981 | Version v1
Journal article

Annealing of vacancies in electron-irradiated silver

  • 1. Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Otaniemi (Finland). Dept. of Technical Physics
  • 2. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, 38 (France). Dept. de Recherche Fondamentale

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Annealing of vacancies in electron-irradiated silver is studied by positron lifetime and residual resistivity measurements. The annealing stage III is found by both methods to be at about 250 K. The activation energy associated with this stage is measured to be 0.72 +- 0.05 eV. It is shown that the stage III recovery in silver is due to vacancy migration which results in formation of positron trapping sites having an exceptionally strong temperature-dependent trapping rate. The defects are interpreted as vacancy loops, which anneal out around 600 K. (author)

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Journal Title
J. Phys., F (London). Met. Phys.
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
7
Series
J. Phys., F (London). Met. Phys.
Journal Page Range
1337-1345
ISSN
0305-4608