Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
The site occupation of three substitutional elements, hafnium, iron and cobalt, in substoichiometric Ni3Al was determined from atom probe field-ion microscopy. The hafnium was found to have a strong preference for the aluminum sites, the cobalt had a strong preference for the nickel sites, and the iron had a weak preference for the aluminum sites. The atom probe results were in agreement with zone axis electron channeling microanalysis of the same alloys and predictions from the position of the solubility lobes in the ternary phase diagrams.