Fj. Ager et al., ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS SPUTTERED DURING THE LANTHANUM IMPLANTATION IN STAINLESS-STEELS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 139(1-4), 1998, pp. 344-349
The evidence of the modification of the surface structure of the AISI-
304 stainless steel during the implantation of lanthanum makes the ana
lysis of the sputtered elements very interesting. Those sputtered elem
ents are deposited on a carbon sheet placed in front of the steel bein
g implanted, and studied by means of RES and PIXE, together with the i
mplanted specimens. Besides, the protective effect of the implanted io
ns during the high temperature oxidation is also studied by those tech
niques together with XRD and thermogravimetric methods. (C) 1998 Elsev
ier Science B.V.