Abstract
SUS304 stainless steels with carbon contents of 0.052%, 0.019% and 0.004% and SUS316L stainless steels with nitrogen contents of 0.095%, 0.032% and 0.003% were irradiated with 12 MeV Ni ions at 573 K to a dose of 1 dpa at 1 μm depth. Microstructure and grain boundary chemical composition were investigated using a transmission electron microscope with a field-emission-gun (FE-TEM) at the probe size of 0.5 nm. The number density of dislocation loop was higher as the carbon content was higher and was almost independent of nitrogen content. With increasing carbon and nitrogen content, the degree of Cr depletion and Si/Ni segregation was decreased. Both carbon and nitrogen suppressed the Cr depletion and Si/Ni segregation. The suppression effect of carbon was larger than that of nitrogen.
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