Nuclear relaxation caused by diffusion of 111 In/Cd probe atoms was measured in four phases having the tetragonal FeGa 3 structure (tP16) using perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy (PAC) and used to gain insight into diffusion processes in phases having more than one diffusion sublattice. The three indide phases studied in this work have two inequivalent and interpenetrating In-sublattices, labeled In1 and In2, and nuclear quadrupole interactions were resolved for probes on each sublattice. The phases are line-compounds with narrow field-widths. Diffusional relaxations, fitted using an exponential damping ansatz , were measured at the two opposing boundary compositions as a function of temperature. “High” and “low” relaxation regimes were observed that are attributed to In-poorer and In-richer compositions, under the reasonable assumption that the atomic motion occurs via an indium-vacancy diffusion mechanism. Relaxation was observed to be greater for tracer atoms starting on In2 sites in the indides immediately following decay of 111 In into 111 Cd, which is attributed to a preference of daughter Cd-tracer atoms and/or indium vacancies to occupy In1 sites. Activation enthalpies for relaxation are compared with enthalpies for self-diffusion in indium metal.
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Diffusion of Tracer Atoms in Al4Ba Phases Studied Using Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy
The Al4Ba crystal structure is the most common structure among binary intermetallic compounds. It is well suited for accommodating large atoms of group II elements and is often the intermediate phase closest to the terminal phase. It is, therefore, of interest to characterize diffusion properties of compounds with this tetragonal crystal structure. In the present study, 111In perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy was used to study solute site occupation and atom movement in In4Ba, Al4Ba, Al4Eu, Al4Sr, and Ga4Sr. The indium tracer and its daughter cadmium were found to occupy only the two Al-type sublattices in these compounds through detection of nuclear quadrupole interactions with axially symmetric EFGs. Measurements with increasing temperature revealed merging of signals due to dynamical averaging of these interactions as Cd atoms jumped at increasing rates between alternating sublattices. The jump rates were estimated to be between 8 kHz and 2 MHz at about 350 °C for Al4Eu and at about 450 °C for In4Ba and Al4Ba. Fits of spectra using Blume’s stochastic model allowed determination of activation enthalpies for average Cd jump rates between alternating Al sublattices in Al4Sr and Ga4Sr to be 1.16(3) eV and 1.47(3) eV, respectively. This result was used to estimate transverse diffusivities of Cd.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1809531
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10420855
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Crystals
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 8
- ISSN:
- 2073-4352
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1152
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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