Ch. Dufour

TL;DR: A transient thermal process is used to describe latent-track formation after high electronic excitation induced by energetic (GeV) heavy ions, and diameters in a-Si and a-Ge are calculated in reasonable agreement with experimental track diameters, taking into account the large differences between the macroscopic thermodynamic parameters of both materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the electronic stopping power (Se) in metals irradiated by swift heavy ions was investigated in the framework of the thermal-spike model, and the effect on the lattice temperature induced by swift-heavy ion irradiation was calculated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of matter transformation induced in crystalline inorganic insulators by swift heavy ions is presented, with the emphasis on new results obtained for amorphizable materials such as Gd3Ga5O12, GeS, and LiNbO3 and for nonamorphizable crystals such as SnO2, LiF and CaF2.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the thermal spike model to calculate the track radii variation versus electronic stopping power in two radiolysis resistant oxides: SiO2 quartz and BaFe12O19.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the rate of the induced damage from in situ electrical resistance measurements, and calculated the evolution with Se of the latent tracks radii on the basis of the thermal spike model, assuming a realistic value for the electron-phonon coupling constant.