Papers by Keyword: Bulk Diffusion

Abstract: The temperature dependence of the bulk diffusion coefficient of Fe in Cu is determined by EDX in the temperature range from 923 to 1273 K, , m²/s. These results are different from that obtained earlier by radiotracer technique: activation energy is less by 30 kJ/mol and pre-exponential factor is 50 times smaller. Deviations from ideality of investigated solutions do not explain the differences; consequently, the thermodynamical factor would not responsible for such an effect. Fast grain boundary diffusion of Fe in Cu was not observed in the temperature range from 823 to 1073 K.

Abstract: The stoichiometric M_pX_q hollow nanospheres are produced by reaction of metallic M nanospheres with the gaseous X phase. In the first stage a sufficiently thick M_pX_q nanoshell on the metallic core of phase M is formed. During this stage high supersaturation of vacancies in the M core or very high hydrostatic stress in the M core, due to the misfit between the core and the nanoshell, are developed and provide favourable conditions for the hollow nucleation. The misfit is caused by the Kirkendall effect. Based on the application of the thermodynamic extremal principle a kinetic model of M_pX_q nanoshell formation is derived. The kinetics is driven by the change of the chemical energy due to reaction of M and X components, of the interface and surface energies, and of the elastic strain energy due to misfit strain of the whole system. The model is used for simulation of the Cu₂O shell growth kinetics due to oxidation of a Cu nanosphere, and the results of simulations are discussed.

Abstract: Oxygen diffusion coefficients were measured in polycrystalline ZnO by means of the gas-solid exchange method using the isotope 18O as the oxygen tracer. The diffusion annealings were performed at 892oC and 992oC, in an Ar+18O2 atmosphere under oxygen partial pressures from 0.1 to 1atm. After the diffusion annealings, the 18O diffusion profiles were established by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Increasing the oxygen pressure leads to an increase of the oxygen diffusion in ZnO. The bulk diffusion coefficients depends on oxygen pressure according to , at 882oC, or , at 992oC, which indicates that the oxygen bulk diffusion mechanism should preferentially take place by means of interstitial oxygen having a null effective charge. The grain boundary diffusion coefficients show little dependence on oxygen pressure at 882oC, given by , which should correspond to a diffusion mechanism by means of interstitial oxygen, with a double negative charge, but at 992oC this dependence is corresponding to a diffusion mechanism by interstitial oxygen having a null effective charge. The results also show that the grain boundary is a fast path for the oxygen diffusion in polycrystalline ZnO.

Abstract: Oxygen diffusion coefficients were determined in a commercial ZnO-based varistor by means of the gas-solid exchange method using the isotope 18O as the oxygen tracer. The diffusion annealings were performed at 892, 942, 992 and 1092oC, in an Ar + 18O2 atmosphere under an oxygen partial pressure of 0.2 atm. After the diffusion annealings, the 18O diffusion profiles were established by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). The results show an increase of the oxygen diffusion in the varistor, both in bulk and in grain boundaries, when compared to the oxygen diffusion in undoped ZnO. The increase of the oxygen bulk diffusion in the varistor agrees with an interstitial mechanism for the oxygen diffusion. The results also show that the grain boundary is a fast path for the oxygen diffusion in the varistor. However, the oxygen diffusion in the grain boundaries of the varistor seems to depend on several chemical and microstructural parameters and does not allow a simple explanation.

Abstract: Experiments of niobium diffusion at infinite dilution and Nb reaction-diffusion in pure iron and in ferrites with different amounts of carbon were performed, for comparison, in order to understand the influence of carbon on the diffusion process in the Nb-Fe system. A proportional decrease of the diffusion coefficient with the increasing amount of carbon was found. This effect seems to be stronger than in the self-diffusion analyzing the literature; moreover SIMS measurements in niobium- implanted samples show a redistribution of carbon during the first steps of the diffusion process. For those reasons, a stronger effect of carbon-niobium interaction over the carbon-vacancy interaction seems to be responsible for the decrease in the diffusion coefficient.

Abstract: The kinetics of the solid-state reactive diffusion between Au and Sn was experimentally observed using Sn/Au/Sn diffusion couples prepared by a diffusion bonding technique. The diffusion couples were isothermally annealed at a temperature of T = 453 K. Due to annealing, AuSn, AuSn2 and AuSn4 compound layers are formed at the interface in the diffusion couple. The experimental results were used to evaluate quantitatively the effect of Ni on the growth of the Au–Sn compounds. The evaluation indicates that the addition of Ni into Sn between 1 and 5 mass% accelerates the growth of the Au–Sn compounds at T = 433–473 K.

Abstract: The superplastic flow in tetragonal zirconia polycrystals stabilised 3mol% Y2O3 (3YTZP) is strongly affected by the dopant cations, which segregate at the grain boundary. It is proposed that this flow is controlled by grain boundary diffusion of Zr4+ ions and therefore the dopant cations should change the grain boundary diffusion. In order to prove this thesis the measurements of grain boundary diffusion coefficients were made using Hf4+ ions as tracer. Zirconia samples were doped with 1mol% of Al2O3, SiO2, MgO, MgAl2O4, GeO2 and TiO2. The tracer was deposited on the surface of the zirconia specimens by placing several drops of hafnium nitrate and then drying at 373 K. In this way, thin films of HfO 2 were obtained. The samples were heated in the range 1553 – 1773 K for 1 to 24 h. The concentration versus depth profiles were measured using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Calculated hence grain boundary diffusion coefficients were several times bigger for doped samples than for pure 3Y-TZP samples.

Abstract: The temperature dependence of the kinetics of the reactive diffusion was numerically analyzed for a hypothetical binary system composed of one compound phase (β) and two primary solid solution phases (α and γ). The growth rate of the β phase during the reactive diffusion between α and γ phases in a semi-infinite diffusion couple was expressed as a function of the interdiffusion coefficient Dθ and the solubility range of the θ phase ( θ = α, β, γ). For the reactive diffusion controlled by volume diffusion, the thickness l of the β phase is described as a function of the annealing time t by the parabolic relationship l2 = Kt. The equations K = K0 exp(−QK/RT) and Dθ = D0 θexp(−Qθ/RT) were adopted to express K and Dθ as functions of temperature T, respectively. The relationship between the temperature dependence of K and that of Dθ was evaluated according to the following assumptions: the molar volume, the solubility range and the value of D0 θ are constant and equivalent for all the phases. When Qα or Qγ is smaller than Qβ, QK is greater than Qβ. On the other hand, QK is close to Qβ, if both Qα and Qγ are greater than Qβ. In such a case, the temperature dependence of the kinetics represents that of interdiffusion in the growing compound.

Abstract: Kinetics of phase growth in multiphase Cu-Sn and Ni-Sn systems and effect of third substitutive component (Ni or Cu respectively) were studied experimentally in temperature range 160-220oC and analyzed theoretically. Kinetic equations for calculation of diffusion coefficients in growing competitive phases were obtained. It was found that the substitutive components accelerated phase growth lowering the values of diffusion activation energy and pre-exponential factor. As a result the growth rates of competitive phases Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn in Cu-Sn system changed with substitutive Ni so, that only one (CuNi)6Sn5 phase survived whereas (CuNi)3Sn phase was suppressed. Obtained results are discussed in terms of higher disordering caused by substitutive components in ternary phases as compared with binary ones.