One of the critical issues for the application of iron aluminide coatings is the loss of Al from the coating into the Fe-base substrate alloys which do not contain aluminum. The interdiffusion behavior between chemical vapor deposited (CVD) aluminide coatings and ferritic and austenitic substrates is being studied for times up to 10,000h in the temperature range of 500-800oC. Coatings were synt...

Cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to study lattice matched InGaAs/InP quantum well (QW) intermixing induced by ion implantation and thermal annealing. Different strain development in QWs (determined by STM topography of elastic relaxation in cross-sectionally cleaved samples) is found to be dependent upon the range of the implanted ions relative to the QWs. It is found...

We present a theoretical description of interdiffusion in a binary blend of polymers that exhibit polydispersity in length. The diffusion equations are formulated in terms of the volume fractions and the chain concentrations of the components. This choice of variables is equivalent to the assumption that the local molecular weight distributions of the components are described by the Flory distr...

The microstructures and weldability of a brazed joint of 1Cr18Ni9Ti austenitic stainless steel with BNi-2, BNi82CrSiBFe and BMn50NiCuCrCo filler metals in vacuum were investigated. It can be observed that an interdiffusion region existed between the filler metal and the base metal for the brazed joint of Ni-based filler metals. The width of the interdiffusion region was about 10 μm, and the mic...

Trefwoorden: metalen en metaallegeringen ; vastestofchemie / diffusie / microstructuur / intermetallische verbindingen / grensvlakverschijnselen ; Kirkendall effect Subject headings: metals and metal alloys ; solid state chemistry / diffusion / microstructure / intermetallic compounds / interfacial phenomena ; Kirkendall effect To my Parents Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Recent develop...

Proton irradiation was used to create interdiffusion in In0.5Ga0.5As quantum dots ~QDs!, grown by low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. After 25-keV proton irradiation, the QD samples were annealed at two temperatures ~700 or 750 °C! for 30 s. It was found that much lower annealing temperatures were needed to recover the photoluminescence signals than in the quantum-well case. La...

We calculate interdiffusion coefficients in a two-component, weakly or strongly coupled ion plasma (gas or liquid, composed of two ion species immersed into a neutralizing electron background). We use an effective potential method proposed recently by Baalrud and Daligaut [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)]. It allows us to extend the standard Chapman-Enskog procedure of calculating the inter...