Воздействие мощным импульсным ионным пучком углерода на приповерхностные слои циркониевой керамики

Abstract

The modifying effects of powerful pulsed beam (PPB) of accelerated carbon ions on subsurface layers zirconium ceramics composition (mol%) 97ZrO[2]-3Y[2]O[3] were investigated. The ion beam had the following parameters: the energy of the accelerated ions is E=200 keV, current pulse duration equal tau[и] =100 ns, pulse current density j[i]=40 and 150 A/cm{2}. The total number of pulses was N=100 and 300. At current densities j[i] = 40 and 150 A/cm2 during the pulse 2,5·10{13} and 9,4·10{13} cm{-2} ions C{+} are implanted in the sample, respectively. The structural-phase state, elemental composition and mechanical properties of subsurface ceramic layers modified by ion beam were investigated. The size of the grains in the longitudinal direction on average 4 times larger than in the transverse direction. According X-ray diffractometry data the carbon ions implantation in the surface layer of ceramics is not accompanied by the formation of new impurity phases. When processing ceramics by ion PPB with W[i]= 3 J/cm{2} (fluence f>=9.4•10{15} cm{-2}) the formation of zirconia cubic phases up to 30 wt. % is observed. Based on analysis of the elemental composition irradiated surface layers by SIMS method and their electrical conductivity a conclusion was drawn that the main cause of the cubic phase stabilization in zirconia is the formation non-stoichiometric oxygen vacancies with high concentrations under ion treatment. It was found that action of ion beam on ceramics leads to a magnitude reduction of such mechanical characteristics as microhardness, nanohardness and Young's modulus.