Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Improving atomic displacement and replacement calculations with physically realistic damage models

  • Kai Nordlund,
  • Steven J. Zinkle,
  • Andrea E. Sand,
  • Fredric Granberg,
  • Robert S. Averback,
  • Roger Stoller,
  • Tomoaki Suzudo,
  • Lorenzo Malerba,
  • Florian Banhart,
  • William J. Weber,
  • Francois Willaime,
  • Sergei L. Dudarev,
  • David Simeone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03415-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The Norgett−Robinson−Torrens displacements per atom model is the benchmark to assess radiation damage in metals but has well-known limitations. Here, the authors use molecular dynamics to introduce material-specific modifications to describe radiation damage more realistically.