Stoichiometry evolution of polyethylene terephtalate under 3.7 MeV He irradiation |
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Authors: | M. Abdesselam J.P. StoquertM. Djebara C. CerrutiA.C. Chami P. Montgomery |
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Affiliation: | a Faculté de Physique, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d’Alger, BP32, El Alia, 16111 BEZ, Algeria b Institut d’Electronique du Solide et des Systèmes, UMR7163, 23 rue du Loess, BP20, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex02, France |
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Abstract: | A 3.7 MeV He+ ion beam was simultaneously used for Polyethylene Terephtalate (PET) film degradation and characterization. To enhance the potentialities of the characterization method, a multi-detector Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) technique was used. The stoichiometry change of the PET target following the irradiation is quantified at a beam fluence varying between 7 × 1013 and 1.8 × 1016 He+ cm−2. The damage induced in PET films by He+ bombarding was analyzed in-situ simultaneously through Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS), Particle Elastic scattering Spectrometry (PES) and Hydrogen Elastic Recoil Detection (ERD).Appropriate experimental conditions for the observation of absolute changes in composition and thickness during irradiation were determined. The oxygen and carbon content evolution as a function of the ion fluence was monitored by He+ backscattering whereas the hydrogen content was measured by H(α, H)α collisions in which both the scattered He+ ions and the recoiling H could be observed. The present study reveals that, at the highest fluence 1.8 × 1016 He+ cm−2, the PET films have lost approximately 15% of the carbon, more than 45% of the hydrogen and 85% of the oxygen of the amount contained in the pristine sample. The energy shift of recoiling H+ ions at a forward angle 45° was followed in order to study the mass loss effect.The experimental results are consistent with the bulk molecular recombination model. Based on the results, hydrogen, oxygen and carbon release cross sections are determined. For hydrogen, comparison with deuteron irradiation indicates a cross section linear dependence on the stopping power. |
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Keywords: | Polymers irradiation Mass loss Polyethylene terephthalate Elastic recoil detection Rutherford backscattering spectrometry |
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