TEXTURE MANIPULATION BY ION IMPLANTATION

High fluence nitrogen ion implantation into titanium at room temperature results in the formation of titanium nitride precipitation. Electron diffraction measurements reveal an implantation-induced texture of titanium nitride precipitations. The experiments demonstrate a strong coupling effect between the implantation-induced fibre texture and the direction of implantation. The results of this investigation support the assumption that the effect of implantation-induced texture is caused by the process of seed selection by ion channeling.