Temperature-dependent radiation-enhanced diffusion in ion-bombarded solids

Abstract
Temperature-dependent radiation-enhanced-diffusion rates for Ag in Ni have been found to decrease at elevated temperatures. The observed narrowing of interface interdiffusion regions with increasing temperature depends on both defect concentration and migration processes which occur in ion-bombarded solids. These findings can be interpreted in terms of a general model of radiation-enhanced diffusion that involves long-lived complex defects which can migrate for large distances and which are themselves subject to annealing.