Showing 1 - 10 of 22 Journals Results
2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)141
Pui-Wai Ma S L Dudarev
Using textit{ab initio} density function theory calculations, we have determined the structure of self-interstitial atom (SIA) defects in the most commonly occurring face-centred cubic (FCC) metals. The most stable SIA defects in Al, Ca, Ni, Cu, Pd and Ag are the $langle 100rangle$ dumbbells whereas octahedral SIA configurations have the lowest ene…
Preprint2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)108
Pui-Wai Ma D. R. Mason S. L. Dudarev
We performed textit{ab initio} density functional theory simulations of $frac{1}{2}langle 111 rangle$ interstitial dislocation loops, closed and open vacancy loops, $langle 100rangle$ interstitial loops and voids in tungsten, using simulation cells involving from 2000 to 2700 atoms. The size of the loops transcends the microscopic scale and reaches…
Preprint2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)103
Federico Baraglia Pui-Wai Ma
We develop a dynamic model for the evolution of an ensemble of hundreds of interacting irradiation-induced mobile nanoscale defects in a micrometre size sample. The model uses a Langevin defect dynamics approach coupled to a finite element model, treated using the superposition method. The elastic field of each defect is described by its elastic di…
Preprint2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)15
Pui-Wai Ma S. L. Dudarev
Vacancy formation and migration control self-diffusion in pure crystalline materials, whereas irradiation produces high concentrations of vacancy and self-interstitial atom defects, exceeding by many orders of magnitude the thermal equilibrium concentrations. The defects themselves, and the extended dislocation microstructure formed under irradi…
Preprint Published2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)06
Pui-Wai Ma S. L. Dudarev
For several decades, the striking contradiction between the Huang diffuse scattering experiments, resistivity recovery data, and predictions derived from density functional theory (DFT) remained one of the mysteries of defect physics in molybdenum. Since the nineteen seventies, observations of Huang X-ray diffuse scattering appeared to indicate …
Preprint Published2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)40
Pui-Wai Ma S. L. Dudarev
CALANIE (CALculation of ANIsotropic Elastic energy) program evaluates an elastic interaction correction to the total energy of a localized object, for example a defect in a solid material simulated using an {it ab initio} or molecular statics approach, resulting from the use of periodic boundary conditions. The correction, computed using a fully el…
Preprint Purchase2018
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(18)83
J. Chapman Pui-Wai Ma S. L. Dudarev
Magnetic plasma confinement is a key element of fusion tokamak power plant design, yet changes in magnetic properties of alloys and steels occurring under neutron irradiation are often overlooked. We perform a quantitative study exploring how irradiation-induced precipitation affects magnetic properties of Fe-Cr alloys. Magnetic properties are simu…
Preprint Published2017
CCFE-PR(17)69
S. L. Dudarev Pui-Wai Ma
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that self-interstitial atom defects in nonmagnetic body-centred cubic (bcc) metals adopt strongly anisotropic configurations, elongated in the h111i direction1–4. Elastic distortions, associated with such anisotropic defect configurations, appear similar to the distortions around small prismatic d…
Preprint Purchase2016
Pui-Wai Ma S.L. Dudarev C.H. Woo
Spin–lattice dynamics generalizes molecular dynamics to magnetic materials, where dynamic variables describing an evolving atomic system include not only coordinates and velocities of atoms but also directions and magnitudes of atomic magnetic moments (spins). Spin–lattice dynamics simulates the collective time evolution of spins and atoms, tak…
Published2015