Revealing atomic-scale vacancy-solute interaction in nickel

Morgado FF, Katnagallu S, Freysoldt C, Klaes B, Vurpillot F, Neugebauer J, Raabe D, Neumeier S, Gault B, Stephenson LT (2021)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

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Book Volume: 203

Article Number: 114036

DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114036

Abstract

It is widely accepted that the different types of crystalline imperfections, such as vacancies or dislocations, greatly influence a material's physical and mechanical properties. However, imaging individual vacancies in solids and revealing their atomic neighborhood remains one of the frontiers of microscopy and microanalysis. Here, we study a creep-deformed binary Ni-2 at.% Ta alloy. Atom probe tomography reveals a random distribution of Ta. Field ion microscopy, with contrast interpretation supported by density-functional theory and time-of-flight mass spectrometry, evidences a positive correlation of Ta with vacancies, supporting positive solute-vacancy interactions previously predicted by atomistic simulations.

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APA:

Morgado, F.F., Katnagallu, S., Freysoldt, C., Klaes, B., Vurpillot, F., Neugebauer, J.,... Stephenson, L.T. (2021). Revealing atomic-scale vacancy-solute interaction in nickel. Scripta Materialia, 203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114036

MLA:

Morgado, Felipe F., et al. "Revealing atomic-scale vacancy-solute interaction in nickel." Scripta Materialia 203 (2021).

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