Trivacancy recovery and formation of a cubic symmetry defect trap on¹¹¹In impurities in Ni

Abstract

Using perturbed angular correlations we studied the formation of a cubic symmetry defect trap in Ni near 350 K following plastic deformation at 295 K. The trap has been identified structurally as a trivacancy trap. The evolution of the defect-free and cubic trap site populations in the course of isochronal and isothermal annealing experiments leads to the conclusion that the cubic trap forms by simple trapping, and that the capture radius of the cubic trap for additional defects is very small.