Comments on 'On the onset of void ordering in metals under neutron or heavy-ion irradiation'

John Hedley Evans (1)

1 Camrose consultants

In their recent paper on void ordering, Barashev and Golubov [1] describe cavity lattice formation in austenitic steel under electron irradiation as a bubble lattice rather than a void lattice. While this is convenient for the model they propose, this comment gives several reasons why the bubble lattice assignation cannot be justified. In addition, some remarks made by Barashev and Golubov on the results of 1-d Monte Carlo (MC) simulations [2], and the role of 1-d SIA clusters in creating the planar ordering found in experimental void lattice formation results [3], are critically discussed.

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John Hedley Evans. Comments on 'On the onset of void ordering in metals under neutron or heavy-ion irradiation'. Philosophical Magazine, 2010, 91 (2), pp.207. ⟨10.1080/14786435.2010.515549⟩. ⟨hal-00627141⟩