DocumentCode
3225411
Title
Theoretical calculation of Radiation Induced Conductivity in nanomaterials
Author
Ahmadi, Morteza ; Yeow, John T W
Author_Institution
Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
fYear
2011
fDate
15-18 Aug. 2011
Firstpage
1737
Lastpage
1740
Abstract
Radiation Induced Conductivity (RIC) is the increase in the conductivity of a material due to incident high energy ionizing radiations. The energy of such radiations excites the valence electrons into higher energy levels in the conduction band. Standard theories of RIC predict that the change in the conductivity of a material under radiation is proportional to radiation dose rate. Here, we show that for nanomaterials, the proportionality parameters in RIC depend on the size of irradiated nanomaterials.
Keywords
X-ray diffraction; energy states; nanostructured materials; valence bands; conduction band; energy levels; ionizing radiations; nanomaterials; proportionality parameters; radiation dose rate; radiation induced conductivity; valence electrons; Conductivity; Materials; Nanomaterials; Nanoparticles; Photonic band gap; Sensors; Zinc oxide; Radiation induced conductivity; X-ray radiations; high energy radiations; nanomaterials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2011 11th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Portland, OR
ISSN
1944-9399
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1514-3
Electronic_ISBN
1944-9399
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NANO.2011.6144368
Filename
6144368
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