Resistivity Recovery in Fe and FeCr alloys (eBook)

Begoña Gómez-Ferrer is currently a post-doc researcher at the Fusion Technology Division of the National Fusion Laboratory CIEMAT in Madrid, Spain. Her research interests include the study of dielectric and optical properties of specific insulators, fibres optics and windows for future fusion reactors.

Chapter 1.          Thermonuclear Fusion  

1.1.        The green solution         

1.2.        Materials problem in fusion reactors     

1.3.        Modelling and experimental validation             

1.4.        Interest of Fe-Cr alloys 

Chapter 2.          Resistivity and experimental techniques            

2.1.        Resistivity Basics              

2.1.1.     Electronic Band structures          

2.1.2.     Quantum Drude model                

2.1.3.     Matthiessen’s rule         

2.1.4.     SRO effects        

2.1.5.     Non-simple metals: the s-p interaction                

2.1.6.     Magnetic effects and deviations from Matthiessen’s rule: the two current model                         

2.2.        Radiation effects on resistivity  

2.3.        Annealing theory            

2.3.1.     Defect diffusion              

2.3.2.     Rate theory       

2.4.        Resistivity recovery method      

2.5.        Improved RR Method   

Chapter 3.          Experimental on Resistivity        

3.1.        Four-point probe method: VdP technique         

3.2.        Low-voltage measurement technique: Delta Method  

3.3.        System requirements   

3.4.        Sample preparation       

3.5.        Set-up  

   

Chapter 4.          State of the art 

4.1.        Accepted picture in pure Fe       

4.2.        Critical review of pure Fe accepted picture         

4.3.        The effect of Cr               

4.4.        The contribution of modelling   

Chapter 5.          Resistivity recovery on Fe and on Fe-Cr alloys 

5.1.        Defect production by 5 MeV H+              

5.2.        Fe-Cr residual resistivity characterization            

5.3.        Irradiation runs: effects of CCr  

5.4.        RR result in pure Fe        

5.5.        RR results in Fe-Cr          

5.5.1.     The effect of CCr in classical RR results  

5.5.2.     The effect of improved RR method        

5.5.3.     Final discussion                

5.5.4.     Comparisons with the literature              

Chapter 6.          Outlook