The spectral composition of optical emission from high-purity iron (99.99% Fe), zirconium (99.98% Zr), and tungsten (99.96% W) targets bombarded by 5–20 keV Ar⁺ ions has been studied. The ion-bombardment-induced emission spectra of all metals exhibit two broad bands in the visible and IR spectral range. The first band is assigned to the emission from thermal spikes representing nanosized regions heated to 5000–6000 K, which are formed at the target surface in the course of evolution of high-density atomic collision cascades. The presence of an IR emission band is explained by the integral heating of targets to 500–800 K in the course of ion irradiation. This interpretation is confirmed by agreement between the experimentally measured and calculated temperatures in the region of thermalized collision cascades and the relative intensities of emission bands.

The mechanical properties of near-surface layers of aluminum oxide ceramic treated with a continuous ion beam of argon are investigated. The phase and structural changes of the modified...

The results of our earlier studies are summed and new data are presented on the influence of beams of accelerated Ar+ions on the mechanical properties and structure of various commercial aluminum...

The effect of accelerated Ar⁺ ions on the crystallization process and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Fe_72.5Cu₁Nb₂Mo_1.5Si₁₄B₉ alloy has been studied using X-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electron microscopy, thermomagnetic analysis, and other magnetic methods. Irradiation by Ar⁺ ions with an energy of 30 keV and a fluence of 3.75 × 10¹⁵ cm^–2 at short-term heating to a temperature of 620 K (which is 150 K below the thermal threshold of crystallization) leads to the complete crystallization of amorphous alloy, which is accompanied by the precipitation of the α-Fe(Si) solid solution crystals (close in composition to Fe₈₀Si₂₀), Fe₃Si stable phase, and metastable hexagonal phases. The crystallization caused by irradiation leads to an increase in the grain size and changes the morphology of grain boundaries and volume fraction of crystalline phases, which is accompanied by changes in the magnetic properties.

The crystallographic texture of samples (1–3 mm thick) of AMg6, VD1, and 1441 aluminum alloys has been studied after cold rolling, post-rolling annealing, and irradiation by accelerated Ar⁺ ions (E = 20–40 keV). A feature in common for the {200} and {111} pole figures of samples rolled to a medium degree of reduction (35–72%) is the absence of the pole density at the center of these figures. When the alloys under study undergo post-rolling technological furnace annealing at high temperatures, a texture is formed with a scattered main component of the {001}〈100〉 type, which also occasionally contains orientations from scatter regions of the rolling-texture components. An exposure of the cold-deformed samples to a beam of accelerated Ar⁺ ions generally leads to analogous textural changes (in the whole volume of the samples irradiated from one side) in a much shorter time and, most frequently, at temperatures 100–200 K lower than in the case of the furnace annealing. In the 1441 alloy, the formation of an unusual two-component cube {001}〈210〉 texture has been noted.