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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: historical approach to materials under irradiation
  name:
    name part: Bouffard, Serge
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
  abstract: Researchers and students have not yet had access to a book which would enable them to trace the origins of the concepts that explain the behavior of materials under irradiation. This book fills the gap. As far back as antiquity, the notions of purity and disorder have been evoked to explain the different properties of materials. It was geologists who developed the subject in the 19th century. Then, with the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity, disorder in materials became the domain of physicists and chemists. The first observations focused on the color changes of ionic crystals, then gradually all the techniques for characterising materials were used. However, questions about the resistance of the components of the first atomic piles to irradiation led to the development of irradiation studies. This book describes the historical approaches to particle transport and defect creation mechanisms. Several chapters detail the history of irradiation of different types of materials: metals, semiconductors, iono-covalent insulators, polymers and radiolysis of water. The final two chapters deal with irradiation tools and applications.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 1.1 References -- Chapter 2 Prerequisites for the Irradiation of Materials -- 2.1 Materials and purity, an old story -- 2.1.1 Materials and disorder in ancient history -- 2.2 Discovering the particles behind irradiation -- 2.2.1 High-voltage generation -- 2.2.2 Vacuum control -- 2.2.3 Cathode rays -- 2.2.4 Discovery of X-rays -- 2.2.5 Discovery of the electron -- 2.2.6 Discovery of radioactivity -- 2.3 First irradiation experiments -- 2.3.1 Pleochroic halos -- 2.4 Secondary effects of radiation -- 2.5 Chapter 2 references -- 2.5.1 A brief chronology -- 2.5.2 Biographies of some of the chapter's personalities -- 2.6 References -- Chapter 3 Particle Transport -- 3.1 It all started with collision experiments -- 3.2 Slowing down in the matter -- 3.3 Particle stopping power -- 3.3.1 Electronic stopping power -- 3.3.2 Nuclear stopping power -- 3.4 Particle range -- 3.5 Transport simulation -- 3.5.1 First simulations -- 3.6 Channeling effects -- 3.7 Chapter 3 references -- 3.7.1 Short chronology -- 3.7.2 Biographies of some of the chapter's personalities -- 3.8 References -- Chapter 4 First Notions of Defects -- 4.1 First observations of defects -- 4.1.1 Photographic processes -- 4.1.2 First experiments: an approach guided by sight -- 4.1.3 Defects, a useful concept for diffusion -- 4.2 Notions of defects -- 4.3 Chapter 4 references -- 4.3.1 Biographies of some of the chapter's personalities -- 4.4 References -- Chapter 5 Defect Creation Mechanisms -- 5.1 Production of defects by irradiation -- 5.1.1 Creation of defects by electronic excitations and ionizations -- 5.1.2 Models for the creation of defects by elastic collisions -- 5.2 Determination of threshold displacement energy -- 5.2.1 Threshold displacement energy mapping -- 5.3 Numerical simulations -- 5.3.1 Creation and stability of point defects -- 5.3.2 Thermal spike -- 5.4 Irradiation-induced sputtering -- 5.4.1 Metal sputtering -- 5.4.2 Uranium sputtering -- 5.5 Chapter …
  note: Serge Bouffard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Materials
    topic: Effect of radiation on
  classification: TA418.6 .B68 2025
  classification: 620.1/1228
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science. Materials science. Metallurgy
  identifier: 9781394361861
  identifier: 1394361866
  identifier: 9781789452211
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  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 250319
    record change date: 20260214201553.6
    record identifier: in00005620820
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng