Affiliation: | Instituto de Física Rosario (CONICET-UNR), Bv. 27 de Febrero 210 bis, 2000, Rosario, Argentina Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Departamento de Materiales, Av. del Libertador 8250, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Abstract: | The effect of pulsed ion implantation of nitrogen and argon on copper was studied by means of mechanical dynamical spectroscopy. A new peak of internal friction at about 800 K (grain boundary relaxation), which is not present in unimplanted samples, was found only in nitrogen ion implanted cases. Nevertheless, a strong increase in the shear modulus was found in the same manner for ion implanted samples with both species of ions. |