Evolution of the Transrotational Structure During Crystallization of Amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 Thin Films

2009 ◽  
Vol 1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Rimini ◽  
Riccardo De Bastiani ◽  
Egidio Carria ◽  
Maria Grazia Grimaldi ◽  
Giuseppe Nicotra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Film Surface ◽  
Xrd Analysis ◽  
Lattice Parameter ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Tem Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Centered ◽  
Average Lattice

AbstractThe crystallization of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films has been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The analysis has been performed on partially crystallized films, with a surface crystalline fraction (fS) ranging from 20% to 100%. XRD analysis indicates the presence, in the partially transformed layer, of grains with average lattice parameters higher than that of the equilibrium metastable cubic phase (from 6.06 Å at fS=20% to 6.01 Å at fS=100%). The amorphous to crystal transition, as shown by TEM analysis, occurs through the nucleation of face-centered-cubic crystal domains at the film surface. Local dimples appear in the crystallized areas, due to the higher atomic density of the crystal phase compared to the amorphous one. At the initial stage of the transformation, a fast bi-dimensional growth of such crystalline nucleus occurs by the generation of transrotational grains in which the lattice bending gives rise to an average lattice parameter significantly larger than that of the face-centered-cubic phase in good agreement with the XRD data. As the crystallized fraction increases above 80%, dimples and transrotational structures start to disappear and the lattice parameter approaches the bulk value.

Non-cosine square angular-dependent magnetoresistance of the face-centered-cubic Co thin films

2020 ◽  
Vol 512 ◽  
pp. 167013
Author(s):  
Yu Miao ◽  
Xiaorui Chen ◽  
Shuanglong Yang ◽  
Kun Zheng ◽  
Zhongyuan Lian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Centered

Critical factors that determine face-centered cubic to body-centered cubic phase transformation in sputter-deposited austenitic stainless steel films

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1696-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Zhang ◽  
A. Misra ◽  
R.K. Schulze ◽  
C.J. Wetteland ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Austenitic Stainless Steel ◽  
Phase Stability ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Body Centered Cubic ◽  
Bcc Structure ◽  
Face Centered ◽  
Sputter Deposited

Bulk austenitic stainless steels (SS) have a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. However, sputter deposited films synthesized using austenitic stainless steel targets usually exhibit body-centered cubic (bcc) structure or a mixture of fcc and bcc phases. This paper presents studies on the effect of processing parameters on the phase stability of 304 and 330 SS thin films. The 304 SS thin films with in-plane, biaxial residual stresses in the range of approximately 1 GPa (tensile) to approximately 300 MPa (compressive) exhibited only bcc structure. The retention of bcc 304 SS after high-temperature annealing followed by slow furnace cooling indicates depletion of Ni in as-sputtered 304 SS films. The 330 SS films sputtered at room temperature possess pure fcc phase. The Ni content and the substrate temperature during deposition are crucial factors in determining the phase stability in sputter deposited austenitic SS films.

Ruthenium Nanoframes in the Face-Centered Cubic Phase: Facile Synthesis and Their Enhanced Catalytic Performance

ACS Nano ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 7241-7251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhao ◽  
Zachary D. Hood ◽  
Madeline Vara ◽  
Kyle D. Gilroy ◽  
Miaofang Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Performance ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Facile Synthesis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Centered

Formation of face-centered cubic titanium on a Ni single crystal and in Ni/Ti multilayers

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan F. Jankowski ◽  
Mark A. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Centered

The artificial layering of metals can change both physical and structural characteristics from the bulk. The stabilization of polymorphic metallic phases can occur on a dimensional scale that ranges from single overgrowth layers to repetitive layering at the nanoscale. The sputter deposition of crystalline titanium on nickel, as both a single layer and in multilayer form, has produced a face-centered cubic phase of titanium. The atomic structure of the face-centered cubic titanium phase is examined using high resolution electron microscopy in combination with electron and x-ray diffraction.

CHALKOGENIDES OF THE TRANSITION ELEMENTS: II. EXISTENCE OF THE π PHASE IN THE M9S8 SECTION OF THE SYSTEM Fe–Co–Ni–S

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osvald Knop ◽  
Mohammad Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Cobalt Content ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Transition Elements ◽  
Maximum Increase ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Centered ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Stability Limits

The face-centered cubic phase π(Fe,Co,Ni,S) has been shown to exist, at room temperature, within wide composition limits in or close to the M9S8 section of the quaternary system Fe–Co–Ni–S. The M:S ratio of the binary phase π (Co,S) is 9:8 with very narrow homogeneity ranges on both sides of Co9S8, but in π (Fe,Co,Ni,S) the ratio is somewhat higher and appears to increase with decreasing cobalt content. Stoichiometric Co9S8 probably contains a small number of vacancies in both sublattices. It is quite lilcely that the sulphur sublattice is nearly fully occupied and that departures from stoichiometry are caused by the varying degree of occupancy of the metal sublattice.The crystal structure, which was proposed for Co9S8 and for the mineral pentlandite by Lindqvist etal., has been confirmed for these two substances and for π (Fe,Co,Ni,S) in general by X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. The present evidence does not support the crystal structure suggested for natural pentlandite by Eliseev; Eliseev's model does not, in fact, account for the diffraction data of any of the substances examined in this work.Replacement of cobalt in π (Co,S) by iron or nickel or both results in an expansion of the unit cell, the maximum increase in a(π) amounting to about 3%. Cobalt in π (Co,S) cannot be replaced completely by iron or by nickel in samples prepared by dry synthesis, but if the substitution is simultaneous, the π structure will be preserved over a considerable range of compositions even on total replacement. The stability limits of π (Fe,Ni,S) have been found somewhat wider than those stated by Lundqvist.In π phases with the compositions Co8MS8 the metal atoms can conceivably be present in ordered sublattices. This possibility was explored by neutron diffraction in slowly cooled Co8NiS8. Unlike in spinels, where nickel shows a strong preference for octahedral co-ordination, the cobalt and nickel atoms were found to be distributed at random.

Crystallographic Structure of Cobalt Films on CU (100)

1993 ◽  
Vol 313 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Heckmann ◽  
H. Magnan ◽  
P. Le Fevre ◽  
D. Chandesris
Keyword(s):  
Normal Incidence ◽  
Grazing Incidence ◽  
Lattice Parameter ◽  
Crystallographic Structure ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Fee Structure ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Face Centered ◽  
Hexagonal Closed Packed

ABSTRACTThe stable structure of cobalt is hexagonal closed packed (hep), but cobalt can be stabilized in the face centered cubic structure (fee) by epitaxy on Cu (100). These films are ferromagnetic with [110] in plane easy axis. The Magnetic anisotropies of these films strongly depend on their structure, and in particular to the possible deviation from the isotropie fee structure. We have studied these films by surface EXAF.S. By recording the spectra both in normal incidence and in grazing incidence we have shown that the Co/Cu (100) films have a face centered tetragonal structure: the mean nearest neighbour distance parallel to the surface is 2.55 Å (same value as in bulk copper) and the interlayer bonds length is 2.50 Å (same value as in bulk cobalt). We conclude that the films are in perfect epitaxy on copper (100) with a contraction of the lattice parameter perpendicular to the surface of 4%. A constant tetragonalization is observed for films of 2 to 15 Monolayers.

Surface layer properties of ultrasonic impact–treated AA7075 aluminum alloy

2017 ◽  
Vol 232 (12) ◽  
pp. 2218-2225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Kahraman
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Aluminum Alloys ◽  
Treatment Time ◽  
Base Material ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Deformation Amount ◽  
The Face ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Face Centered

In this work, surface layer properties of AA7075 aluminum alloys’ ultrasonic impact peened at different treatment times are investigated. Three different layers were found on the ultrasonic impact–treated surface of AA7075 aluminum alloys. The thicknesses of the layers increase with an increase in the treatment time or deformation amount. X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the treated surfaces have no different phases from base material and are in the face-centered cubic phase. The highest hardness values of all treated AA7075 aluminum alloys were determined in nanocrystallization layer, which is the top layer of the surface because of the grain refinement and work hardening. A sharp increase at the residual stresses occurs, increasing the deformation time and amount because of the surface enlargement.

Plasticity and Size Effects in High Purity Cobalt: An Experimental Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 560-565
Author(s):  
Gwendoline Fleurier ◽  
Mayerling Martinez ◽  
Pierre Antoine Dubos ◽  
Eric Hug
Keyword(s):  
Size Effects ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Cubic Phase ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
Tem Analysis ◽  
Cubic Metals ◽  
Hexagonal Close Packed ◽  
A Value ◽  
Face Centered ◽  
Two Phases

The occurrence of size effects in cobalt was examined by the analysis of mechanical properties of samples with thickness t, in a large range of grain size d giving a number of grains across the thickness t/d. On Hall-Petch plots, from the very beginning of plastic strain, two linear behaviors are notable: the polycrystalline one for higher t/d and the multicrystalline one for lower t/d in which the flow stress is strongly reduced. (t/d)c is the threshold value between the two behaviors taking a value of around 14. This high value is directly linked to the low stacking fault energy of cobalt. The microstructure of the polycrystalline samples exhibits a strong basal texture and a small proportion of a secondary face-centered cubic phase in a hexagonal close-packed main phase was evidenced. TEM analysis enables to characterize the dislocations and the stacking faults present in the two phases. To complete the analysis, two plasticity stages can be distinguished: stage A corresponding to dislocations gliding and stage B driven by twinning. Size effects in cobalt are found to occur during gliding process and could be related to surface effects as previously shown in face-centered cubic metals.

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