The effects of discrete mobile dislocations on spinodal decomposition kinetics in lattice-mismatched binary alloys were examined. By using a novel continuum model, it was demonstrated that the effects of dislocation mobility upon domain-coarsening kinetics could be expressed in a unified manner by using a scaling function which described a cross-over from t1/2 to t1/3 behavior.

Scaling of Domain Size during Spinodal Decomposition - Dislocation Discreteness and Mobility Effects. M.Haataja, J.Mahon, N.Provatas, F.Léonard: Applied Physics Letters, 2005, 87[25], 251901 (3pp)