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Nitrogen Ions Implantation in W-Based Quad Alloy: Structure, Electrical Resistivity, Surface Roughness and Vickers Hardness as a Function of Ion Dose

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Five W-alloy specimens, containing 8.57% Ni, 6.34% Cu, and 1.34% Mo, were bombarded with 5.2 MeV singly charged nitrogen ions. The ions dose range was 5 × 1014–1 × 1016 ions/cm2. XRD patterns portrayed diffraction peaks of pure W as well as of Cu0.4W0.6, MoNi4, and Ni4W phases. Harris analysis showed that the preferentially oriented planes depend on the nitrogen ions dose. The structural parameters, namely lattice strain and crystallite size, vary with nitrogen ions dose alike. Same pattern is followed by surface hardness and electrical resistivity. The increase in the values of all the parameters with ions dose is rapid in the range 0–1 × 1015 ions/cm2 and later on slow till the maximum ions dose 1 × 1016 ions/cm2. However, the interdependence of each parameter on the other ones was linear. Surface roughness of the specimens was found to decrease on increasing ions dose. On the other hand, surface hardness registers a rise as crystallite size increases, and hence follows Inverse Hall–Petch relation.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the technical staff of the Accelerator Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics, GC University, Lahore, for their kind cooperation and valuable assistance in irradiating the W-based alloy specimens. Special thanks are due to Engr. Muhammad Irfan, Head PITMAEM, PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Lahore, for providing elemental composition of the W-based alloy. Authors are also indebted to the learned referee for his valuable suggestions to improve the manuscript.

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    Muhammad Zakria Butt, Muzamil Aftab, M. Shahid Pervaiz, M. Usman Tanveer & M. Waqas Khaliq

  2. Department of Physics, GC University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Dilawar Ali

  3. Central Research Laboratories, LCW University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Farooq Bashir

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Butt, M.Z., Ali, D., Aftab, M. et al. Nitrogen Ions Implantation in W-Based Quad Alloy: Structure, Electrical Resistivity, Surface Roughness and Vickers Hardness as a Function of Ion Dose. Met. Mater. Int. 27, 3342–3358 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-020-00861-z

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