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Mechanisms of Al Self- and Al-Substituting Solute Diffusion in Ni3Al
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
Diffusion of the Al-substituting elements Ga, Ge, Ti and Nb has been investigated in Ni3Al single crystals by the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). A model for the minority component diffusion by anti-structure defects has been suggested for the Ll2 structure. It involves both nearest neighbor jumps of the solute atoms on the Ni sublattice as anti-structure atoms and the formation of so-called anti-structure bridges which correspond to jumps between different sublattices. The model under consideration was shown to agree with the experimental data on the Al-substituting solute diffusion (X = Ga, Ge, Ti, Nb) in Ni3Al and it allows to explain also the observed ratio of the diffusivities DNi/DX, which may be higher and/or lower than unity in dependence on the solute and temperature.
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