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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 218 (2004) 111—116  1locate1nimb  Influence of high-fluence neutron and1or proton irradiation on the optical properties and microstructure of rutile Tiecheng Lu a,c,*, Libin Lin a, Xiaotao Zu a, Sha Zhu b, Lumin Wang b a Department of Physics and Key Laboratory for Radiation Physics and Technology of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR China b Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA c International Center for Material Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110015, PR China Abstract Rutile (TiO2 ) single crystals of (1 1 0) or (0 0 1) orientation were irradiated by high fluence reactor neutrons with the fluence of 1 x 1023 m—2 , by protons with the energy of 0.3—18 MeV and the fluence from 1 x 1018 to 1.9 x 1022 m—2 , respectively. UV—VIS—IR, LRS and HRTEM were used to analyze the optical properties and microstructure of samples. The UV—VIS—IR results showed that high-fluence neutron and proton irradiation induce similar variation of optical properties of samples, especially absorption plateau appear. LRS results showed that the relative intensity of common vibration modes is di?erent for di?erent plane, both high fluence neutron irradiation and proton irradiation induce similar variations of the frequency and intensity of Raman vibration modes in the same orientated samples, and proton irradiation also induces several new vibration modes appear. High fluence irradiation induced large defect clusters, i.e. stacking faults, which is demonstrated by HRTEM observation. In addition, the di?erence between neutron-induced irradiation e?ect and proton-induced irradiation e?ect has been also discussed. ? 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Rutile; Neutron irradiation; Proton irradiation; Optical absorption; Stacking faults 1. Introduction Rutile electrodes have