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Damage along an ion track in diamond: a computer simulation

A. Sorkin·Joan Adler·R. Kalish
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We present tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations of the structural modifications that result from the "thermal spike" that occurs during the passage of a heavy fast ion through a thin diamond or amorphous carbon layer, and the subsequent regrowth upon cooling. The thermal spike and cooling down are simulated by locally heating and then quenching a small region of carbon, surrounded either by diamond or by a mostly three-fold bonded amorphous carbon network. For the case of the thermal spike in diamond we find that if the ``temperature'' (kinetic energy of the atoms) at the center of the thermal spike is high enough, an amorphous carbon region containing a large fraction of threefold coordinated C atoms (two-fold bonded) remains within the diamond network after cooling. The structure of this amorphous layer depends very strongly on the ``temperature'' of heating and on the dimensions of the thermal spike. Scaling is found between curves of the dependence of the percentage of two-fold bonded atoms in the region of the thermal spike on the heating ``temperature'' for different volumes. When the thermal spike occurs in an initially amorphous sample the structure of the damaged region after cooling exhibits the above dependencies as well as being a function of the structure of the original amorphous carbon layers.

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A. Sorkin, Joan Adler, R. Kalish. 2003-07-17. Damage along an ion track in diamond: a computer simulation. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307415

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