The mechanism of diffusional transport during low-energy ion nitriding of aluminum has been investigated using marker and isotope sequence techniques in connection with ion-beam analysis. For an ion energy of 1 keV and a temperature of 400 °C, it is shown that the nitride grows at the surface with aluminum being supplied by diffusion from the underlying bulk.
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