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Cascade irradiation of metals gives rise to swelling as a result of the creation of voids and the evolution of the void ensemble. Under suitable circumstances, the originally disordered void distribution transforms into to a void lattice. As demonstrated previously, the understanding of the evolution and the unique features of the void ensemble requires a difference in the anisotropy of the diffusion (DAD) of vacancies and self-interstitial atoms (SIAs), which is achieved by one-dimensional diffusion of the SIAs. On the other hand, void swelling has been successfully modeled in terms of three-dimensional diffusion of both vacancies and SIAs. In the present paper it is shown that these seemingly contradicting interpretations and all related observations can be quantitatively reconciled by a small DAD created by only ∼1% of SIAs diffusing one-dimensionally. It is also demonstrated that at the initial stage of void-lattice formation, ordering occurs mainly on close-packed crystal planes, which is in contrast to the naïve expectation that one-dimensional diffusion of SIAs should result in a void ordering along close-packed directions. Finally it is found that, in the case of a small DAD, voids annihilate via stochastic shrinkage much faster than by coalescence. This falsifies the argument in the literature that one-dimensional diffusion of SIAs would necessarily lead to the coalescence of voids and destabilization of the void lattice.
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The paper is dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Alfred Seeger on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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Semenov, A.A., Woo, C.H. & Frank, W. Diffusion anisotropy and void development under cascade irradiation. Appl. Phys. A 93, 365–377 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-008-4832-4
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