TY - JOUR
T1 - Ordering and site occupancy of D03 ordered Fe3Al-5 at%Cr evaluated by means of atom probe tomography
AU - Rademacher, Thomas W.
AU - Al-Kassab, Tala'at
AU - Deges, Johannes
AU - Kirchheim, Reiner
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This project was friendly supported by the DFG - Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft - under contract number DFG-Az.: AL 592/3-1.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Addition of ternary elements to the D03 ordered Fe3Al intermetallic phase is a general approach to optimise its mechanical properties. To understand the physical influences of such additions the determination of the probability of site occupancies of these additions on the lattice site and ordering parameters is of high interest. Some common experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction or Atom Location by Channelling Enhanced Microanalysis (ALCHEMI) are usually applied to explore this interplay. Unfortunately, certain published results are partly inconsistent, imprecise or even contradictory. In this study, these aspects are evaluated systematically by atom probe tomography (APT) and a special data analysis method. Additionally, to account for possible field evaporation effects that can falsify the estimation of site occupancy and induce misinterpretations, APT evaporation sequences were also simulated. As a result, chromium occupies most frequently the next nearest neighbour sites of Al atoms and local ordering parameters could be achieved. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
AB - Addition of ternary elements to the D03 ordered Fe3Al intermetallic phase is a general approach to optimise its mechanical properties. To understand the physical influences of such additions the determination of the probability of site occupancies of these additions on the lattice site and ordering parameters is of high interest. Some common experimental techniques such as X-ray diffraction or Atom Location by Channelling Enhanced Microanalysis (ALCHEMI) are usually applied to explore this interplay. Unfortunately, certain published results are partly inconsistent, imprecise or even contradictory. In this study, these aspects are evaluated systematically by atom probe tomography (APT) and a special data analysis method. Additionally, to account for possible field evaporation effects that can falsify the estimation of site occupancy and induce misinterpretations, APT evaporation sequences were also simulated. As a result, chromium occupies most frequently the next nearest neighbour sites of Al atoms and local ordering parameters could be achieved. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561770
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304399110003517
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.12.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.12.009
M3 - Article
SN - 0304-3991
VL - 111
SP - 719
EP - 724
JO - Ultramicroscopy
JF - Ultramicroscopy
IS - 6
ER -