Anomalous heat evolution was observed in deuteron-implanted Al foils upon 175keV Electron bombardment. Local regions with linear dimension of more than 100nm each showed simultaneous transformation from single crystalline to polycrystalline structure in roughly one minutes on the electron bombardment, indicating the temperature rise up to more than melting point of Al from room temperature. The amount of energy necessary for the transformation was typically 160MeV for each transformed region. The transformation was never observed in proton-implanted Al foils.
Microstructures in the subsurface layer of the implanted Al, investigated by the collaboration of ERD and TEM, were presented for numerical discussions of the experimental results.
Possible causes of the surface melting, such as heating effect of the electron beam, size effect of the melting point, difference of the implanted depth profiles between the hydrogen and deuterium, and possible chemical reactions due to the electron bombardment in D
2 collections were investigated, and the conclusion is inevitable that some kind of nuclear reactions which takes place in the D2 collections is responsible for the melting. The reaction was estimated to continue for a short time, presumably less than 10
-10, and the energy gain, which is defined as the ratio between the amount of energy evolved and the energy loss of the impinging electrons through the Al specimen, amounts to more than 1×10
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