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Thermalization of Displacement Cascades in Solids and the Thermal Spike Model

Yu. A. Kashlev

A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: We investigate the thermalization of low-energy cascades of displacements in solids using methods of nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics. We investigate the time evolution of the quasi temperature of cascade particles taking the phonon scattering on dislodged atoms and the thermal recombination of defects into account. We use the obtained quasi-temperature time dependence to study the activated process – sputtering in the thermal spike region.

Received: 22.03.2001
Revised: 07.06.2001

DOI: 10.4213/tmf295

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2002, 130:1, 111–122

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