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Colour center production in yttria-stabilizing zirconia by swift charge particle irradiations.

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We have studied the colour centre production by swift electron and heavy ion irradiations of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), i.e. ZrO2:Y with 9.5 mol% Y2O3. For this purpose, we performed irradiations of \langle 100\rangle - or \langle 110\rangle -oriented YSZ single crystals with 2.5 MeV electrons, 145 MeV 13C, 180 MeV 32S, 200 MeV 58Ni, 230 MeV 79Br, 120 MeV 127I, 200 MeV 127I, 200 MeV 197Au, and 2.6 GeV 238U ions. X-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and UV–visible optical absorption measurements were used to monitor the point defect formation. The EPR line saturations were measured between 6 and 150 K, in order to obtain the spin–lattice relaxation time (T1). Electron and ion beams produce the same two colour centres: (i) the first one is identified as an F+-type centre (singly ionized oxygen vacancy) with an axial \langle 100\rangle symmetry, a small g-factor anisotropy (g_{\bot }=1.972 and g_{\parallel }=1.996 ) and long T1 values, (ii) the second one is similar to the well known T-centre (Zr3+ in a trigonal oxygen environment) with an axial \langle 111\rangle symmetry and a large g-factor anisotropy (g_{\bot }=1.855 and g_{\parallel }=1.986 ), which is also produced by photon irradiations. A broad optical absorption band centred at a wavelength near 500 nm is observed with an absorption coefficient proportional to the volume density of the F+-type centre deduced from the room temperature EPR spectra. Since no change of this band occurs between 10 and 300 K, it indicates that the electron–phonon coupling of this colour centre must be strong, in agreement with an F+-type centre. Owing to the axial \langle 100\rangle symmetry and lack of hyperfine structure of the EPR lines of this defect, it is suggested that the first coordination shell must contain one native oxygen vacancy. The plots of the volume density of this centre versus fluence are on the whole rescaled as functions of the number of displacements per atom induced by elastic collisions.
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hal-00083994 , version 1 (05-07-2006)

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Jean-Marc Costantini, François Beuneu, Didier Gourier, Christina Trautmann, Georges Calas, et al.. Colour center production in yttria-stabilizing zirconia by swift charge particle irradiations.. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2004, 16, pp.3971. ⟨10.1088/0953-8984/16/23/014⟩. ⟨hal-00083994⟩
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