Microscopic diffusion mechanisms in Fe-Al, Ni-Ga and (Ni Fe)-Al B2 phases

Bogdan Sepiol, W Löser, Martin Kaisermayr, Richard Weinkamer, Peter Fratzl, H Thiess, Marcel Sladecek, Gero Vogl

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    Abstract

    With methods derived from nuclear physics like Mössbauer spectroscopy, quasielastic neutron scattering and nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation, the elementary diffusion jump mechanism in B2 alloys has been investigated. The diffusion of (a) iron in Fe-Al alloys from stoichiometric B2 up to the disordered bcc-phase, (b) nickel in Ni-Ga alloys and (c) iron in the ternary intermetallic phase (Ni0.8Fe0.2)0.5Al0.5 is explained with the same elementary diffusion jump based on exchanges between vacancies and their nearest-neighbour atoms only. The features of the diffusion path, which depend decisively on the investigated system, can be understood assuming an interaction of the vacancy with the locally disordered areas in the B2 lattice. Experimental results are compared with results from Monte Carlo simulations providing estimates of the interaction energies between vacancies and atoms. Œ 2001 Scitec Publications.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)349-356
    Number of pages8
    JournalDefect and Diffusion Forum
    Issue number194-199 PA
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 1030 Physics, Astronomy

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