Document Type
Article
Research Focus Area
Advanced and Nanostructured Materials
Publication Date
2004
Journal or Book Title
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Volume
151
Issue
1
First Page
B22
Last Page
B26
DOI
10.1149/1.1631821
Abstract
Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) measurements were carried out to characterize open-volume defects associated with anodic oxidation of aluminum. The annihilation fractions with low and high momentum electrons (S and W spectral lineshape parameters, respectively) of the annihilation photopeak were determined, as a function of the positron beam energy. A subsurface defect layer, containing nanometer-scale voids in the metal near the metal/oxide film interface, was found after oxide growth, and was shown to contain new voids created by anodizing. Such interfacial voids in the metal are of interest because of their possible role as corrosion initiation sites. The Sparameter characterizing the defect-containing layer (Sd) was obtained by simulation of the S-energy profiles. On samples with two different surface conditions, Sd remained constant at its initial value during anodizing. Because Sd is related to the void volume fraction in the interfacial metallic layer containing the voids, that result suggests that formation of metallic voids, and their subsequent incorporation into the growing oxide layer, occurred repeatedly at specific favored sites. © 2003 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.
Copyright Owner
ECS—The Electrochemical Society
Copyright Date
2004
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hebert, Kurt R.; Gessman, Thomas; Lynn, Kelvin; and Asoka-Kumar, P., "Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Study of Interfacial Defects Formed by Anodic Oxidation of Aluminum" (2004). Chemical and Biological Engineering Publications. 57.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cbe_pubs/57
Comments
This article is from Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151 (2004): B22–B26, doi:10.1149/1.1631821. Posted with permission.