Institution: | * Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Research, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Head Post Office, P.O. Box 79, SU-101 000, Russia † Laboratory of High Energy Physics; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Head Post Office, P.O. Box 79, SU-101 000, Russia ‡ Dresden University of Technology, Institut für Strahlenschutzphysik, Dresden, Germany |
Abstract: | The technique of the electrochemical etching of irradiated polymer films is an useful method to investigate structures of the track cores. The transversale etching rate as a function of the radius, derived from the time-dependence of the radius of the etching pore, can be interpreted as a corresponding magnitude of the degree of the damage within the track core. In the case of polymer films irradiated by a high track density, the influence of the time distribution of the breakthroughs (pore opening process) of the etching microchannels on the conductivity changes during the etching process is to be discussed. First represented results lead to statements about the statistical nature of the pore opening process. |