Responsable(s)
EDF R&D Les Renardières
Contenu(s)
Fundamentals of DFT (Density Functional theory) and application to irradiation damage (structure of condensed matter - Kohn Sham equations, waves function representation..)
The displacement cascade (displacement threshold, PKA, influence of crystallinity)
Experimental irradiations and realism with respect to irradiations in power plants (difficulties related to active materials, irradiation spectrum, manipulation ...)
Molecular Dynamics applied to displacement cascades
Point defects (interstitials, vacancies in different crystallographic structures, complex impurity/interstitials and vacancies, point defects in ceramics)
Electronic microscopy applied to the analysis of irradiated microstructures
A case of study is given to the students