Influence of N+implantation on structure, morphology, and corrosion behavior of Al in NaCl solution

• 来源期刊: 中国物理B（英文版）
• 关键词: aluminium ion implantation surface morphology corrosion electrochemical impedance spec-troscopy polarization
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（5）
• 页码范围: 591-600
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab7d97

摘要

Structural and morphological changes as well as corrosion behavior of N+ implanted Al in 0.6 M NaCl solution as function of N+ fl uence are investigated. The x-ray diffraction results confirmed AlN formation. The atomic force microscope (AFM) images showed larger grains on the surface of Al with increasing N+fl uence. This can be due to the increased number of impacts of N+ with Al atoms and energy conversion to heat, which increases the diffusion rate of the incident ions in the target. Hence, the number of the grain boundaries is reduced, resulting in corrosion resistance enhancement. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and polarization results showed the increase of corrosion resistance of Al with increasing N+fl uence. EIS data was used to simulate equivalent electric circuits (EC) for the samples. Strong dependence of the surface morphology on the EC elements was observed. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis of the samples after corrosion test also showed that the surfaces of the implanted Al samples remain more intact relative to the untreated Al sample, consistent with the EIS and polarization results.