Papers by Author: Yu.A. Lyashenko

Abstract: The suppression criterion of the binary phase growth due to addition of a third component is considered. In this case the analysis of the two possible criteria of the first phase growth are considered: first – kinetic criterion based on the balance of components fluxes and second - thermodynamic criterion which is based on the maximal rate of the entropy production principle. We demonstrate that in the case of a model system the thermodynamic criterion lead to a bigger value of the critical thickness of the phases which are suppressed by the growth of the investigated phase.

Abstract: A model of discontinuous precipitation in binary polycrystalline alloys at low temperatures is presented. The proposed approach allows independent determination of the main parameters, including the interlamellar distance, the maximum velocity of the phase transformation front, and the concentration step at this boundary. This is achieved by using a set of equations for: 1) the mass transfer in the moving interphase boundary; 2) the balance of the entropy fluxes at the phase transformation front, and 3) the maximum rate of the free energy release under constraint of entropy balance. Concepts of mobility and linear interrelation between the driving force and velocity are not used explicitly. Comparison of the model calculation with the experimental results for the Pb-Sn system at different supersaturations is provided.

Abstract: A model of alloying in the three-layer thin-film system at the low temperature is constructed. Solid solution formation takes place as a result of the diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM). The unknown parameters are determined from the set of the equations for: (1) grain boundary diffusion along the moving planar phase boundary; (2) the entropy balance in the region of the phase transformation moving with constant velocity; (3) the maximum rate of the free energy release. We consider the model system with complete solubility of the components. The main parameters are self-consistently determined using thermodynamic and kinetic description in the frame of the regular solution model. The model allows determining the concentration distribution along the planar moving phase boundary, its velocity, the thickness of the forming solid solution layer and the limiting average concentration in this layer.

Abstract: A method of the determining of the mutual diffusion coefficients in ternary intermediate phases is suggested. Methodology for determination of the interdiffusion coefficients of phases formed in a ternary diffusion couple in T-sample configuration is presented. The method requires only one annealing of the T-sample and makes it possible to calculate the matrix of the diffusion coefficients in the (CuNi)6Sn5 and Cu3Sn ternary intermediate phases under low temperature. The concentration profiles and electron micrograph of the diffusion zone was obtained in the ternary Cu-Ni-Sn system annealed for 64 hours under 200°C. Phase competition in this ternary system with special configuration of T-sample leads to lateral diffusion of Cu, to formation (CuNi)6Sn5 compound between Ni-Sn side and to suppression of other NixSny intermediate phases.