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Role of Chemical Disordering In Eleci3O Irradiation Induced Amorphisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
Abstract
The electron irradiation induced crystalline to amorphous (C-A) transition was investigated in the Cu-Ti alloy system. As the transition is found to be dose dependent, the energy accumulated during the irradiation must make the crystal lattice unstable with respect to the amorphous state. In this paper, two possibilities for this energy accumulation, chemical disordering and the accumulation of point defects, is examined using the intermetallic compound CuTi2. Also, the effect of deviations from stoichiometry on the C-A transition is investigated in the compound CuTi. The Bragg-Williams long-rang order parameter, S, was found to decrease with electron dose. The rate of this decrease decreased with increasing temperature. At a critical temperature, the maximum obtainable degree of chemical disordering critically decreased. This critical temperature coincided with the critical temperature for the C-A transition, favoring the chemical disordering as the primary driving force. In CuTi, the C-A transition was hindered when there existed a Cu-rich deviation from stoichiometry.
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