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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Single crystal wafers of <0001>-oriented 6H-SiC were irradiated at different temperatures using a variety of ion species. The disorder on both the Si and C sublattices has been studied in situ using a combination of ion beam analyses in multiaxial channeling geometry. The fraction of the irradiation-induced defects surviving simultaneous recovery processes decreases with decreasing ion mass and with increasing irradiation temperature. Some of the Si and C defects are well aligned with the <0001> axis and the rate of C disordering is higher than that of Si disordering. Three recovery stages in Au2+-irradiated 6H-SiC have been identified.