Hydride precipitation in zirconium cladding materials can damage their integrity and durability.Service temperature and material defects have a significant effect on the dynamic growth of hydrides.In this study,we hav...Hydride precipitation in zirconium cladding materials can damage their integrity and durability.Service temperature and material defects have a significant effect on the dynamic growth of hydrides.In this study,we have developed a phasefield model based on the assumption of elastic behaviour within a specific temperature range(613 K-653 K).This model allows us to study the influence of temperature and interfacial effects on the morphology,stress,and average growth rate of zirconium hydride.The results suggest that changes in temperature and interfacial energy influence the length-to-thickness ratio and average growth rate of the hydride morphology.The ultimate determinant of hydride orientation is the loss of interfacial coherency,primarily induced by interfacial dislocation defects and quantifiable by the mismatch degree q.An escalation in interfacial coherency loss leads to a transition of hydride growth from horizontal to vertical,accompanied by the onset of redirection behaviour.Interestingly,redirection occurs at a critical mismatch level,denoted as qc,and remains unaffected by variations in temperature and interfacial energy.However,this redirection leads to an increase in the maximum stress,which may influence the direction of hydride crack propagation.This research highlights the importance of interfacial coherency and provides valuable insights into the morphology and growth kinetics of hydrides in zirconium alloys.展开更多
Mixed-valance manganites with strong electron correlation exhibit strong potential for spintronics,where emergent magnetic behaviors,such as propagation of high-frequency spin waves and giant topological Hall Effects ...Mixed-valance manganites with strong electron correlation exhibit strong potential for spintronics,where emergent magnetic behaviors,such as propagation of high-frequency spin waves and giant topological Hall Effects can be driven by their mesoscale spin textures.Here,we create magnetic vortex clusters with flux closure spin configurations in single-crystal La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 wire.A distinctive transformation from out-of-plane domains to a vortex state is directly visualized using magnetic force microscopy at 4 K in wires when the width is below 1.0μm.The phase-field modeling indicates that the inhomogeneous strain,accompanying with shape anisotropy,plays a key role for stabilizing the flux-closure spin structure.This work offers a new perspective for understanding and manipulating the non-trivial spin textures in strongly correlated systems.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.U2230401,U1930401,and 12004048)the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2021YFB3501503)+1 种基金the Science Challenge Project (Grant No.TZ2018002)the Foundation of LCP。
文摘Hydride precipitation in zirconium cladding materials can damage their integrity and durability.Service temperature and material defects have a significant effect on the dynamic growth of hydrides.In this study,we have developed a phasefield model based on the assumption of elastic behaviour within a specific temperature range(613 K-653 K).This model allows us to study the influence of temperature and interfacial effects on the morphology,stress,and average growth rate of zirconium hydride.The results suggest that changes in temperature and interfacial energy influence the length-to-thickness ratio and average growth rate of the hydride morphology.The ultimate determinant of hydride orientation is the loss of interfacial coherency,primarily induced by interfacial dislocation defects and quantifiable by the mismatch degree q.An escalation in interfacial coherency loss leads to a transition of hydride growth from horizontal to vertical,accompanied by the onset of redirection behaviour.Interestingly,redirection occurs at a critical mismatch level,denoted as qc,and remains unaffected by variations in temperature and interfacial energy.However,this redirection leads to an increase in the maximum stress,which may influence the direction of hydride crack propagation.This research highlights the importance of interfacial coherency and provides valuable insights into the morphology and growth kinetics of hydrides in zirconium alloys.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0302300)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Z190008)+9 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974052 and 11474024)the Beamline 1W1A of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facilitythe National Natural Science Foundation of China(11604011)Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholarsthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(11672264 and 11621062)support by the German Research Foundation DFG SFB TRR173 Spin+X,project KL1811/18the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz(GSC266)Peking University was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFA0300804)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974023 and 51672007)the Key R&D Program of Guangdong Province(2018B030327001 and 2018B010109009).
文摘Mixed-valance manganites with strong electron correlation exhibit strong potential for spintronics,where emergent magnetic behaviors,such as propagation of high-frequency spin waves and giant topological Hall Effects can be driven by their mesoscale spin textures.Here,we create magnetic vortex clusters with flux closure spin configurations in single-crystal La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 wire.A distinctive transformation from out-of-plane domains to a vortex state is directly visualized using magnetic force microscopy at 4 K in wires when the width is below 1.0μm.The phase-field modeling indicates that the inhomogeneous strain,accompanying with shape anisotropy,plays a key role for stabilizing the flux-closure spin structure.This work offers a new perspective for understanding and manipulating the non-trivial spin textures in strongly correlated systems.
