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Review: The nucleation of disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

R.W. Cahn  and
W.L. Johnson
R.W. Cahn
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
W.L. Johnson
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
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Abstract

Four types of phase transformation that involve the conversion of crystalline phases into more disordered forms are reviewed: melting, disordering of superlattices, amorphization by diffusion between crystalline phases, and irradation amorphization. In the review emphasis is placed on evidence for the heterogeneous nucleation of the product phases; in this connection, the role of surfaces, antiphase domain boundaries, dislocations, vacancies, and grain boundaries is specifically discussed. All of these features have been either observed, or hypothesized, to play a role as heterogeneous nucleation sites in one or more of the four transformations. An attempt is made to draw parallels between nucleation mechanisms in the various processes.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , October 1986 , pp. 724 - 732
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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