scholarly journals Point Defects in Materials Part I: Behavior and Characteristics in Different Material Classes

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
David N. Seidman ◽  
Donglu Shi

In this issue of the MRS Bulletin we present five papers that involve point defect phenomena in a wide variety of materials—metals, conducting ceramic oxides, semiconductors, amorphous alloys, and high Tc superconducting oxides. The unifying theme of this issue is point defects—zero-dimensional defects. Even for the high Tc oxides, where planar defects are discussed, it is the ordering of oxygen/vacancy chains that ultimately gives rise to twins in the famous YBa2Cu3O7.δ (1:2:3) oxide superconductor.Hillard Huntington, professor emeritus of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an early and important pioneer in the study of point defects in metals. A theorist, he has also performed many experiments over the years; for example, he performed key early experiments on electromigration effects. Huntington's article presents a historical review of the research on vacancies and self-interstitial atoms in metals during the period that stretches from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. He played a crucial role in this field as a result of his seminal theoretical calculations, with Fred Seitz in 1942, on the enthalpies of formation and migration of vacancies or self-interstitial atoms in pure copper. Huntington's and Seitz's calculations indicated that diffusion occurs predominantly by a monovacancy mechanism since the enthalpy of formation of a self-interstitial atom, the [100] split form, also called the dumbbell form, is too large to be compatible with the activation enthalpy for self-diffusion in copper. It is now well established that the latter is given by the sum of the enthalpy of formation and the enthalpy of migration of a monovacancy in many face-centered-cubic (fcc), body-centered-cubic (bec), and hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) metals.

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Takhistov ◽  
I.N. Domnin ◽  
D.A. Ponomarev

Ionization and appearance energies of some fragment ions from 1,2,3-trimethy1-3-phenyl-, 3-methyl-1,2,3-triphenyl-, 1,2-diphenyl-3-methoxycarbonyl-, 1,2,3-triphenyl-3-methoxycarbonyl- and 1,3,3-triphenyl-2-methoxycarbonyl-cyclopropenes were measured by photoionization mass spectrometry. It was shown that in none of these compounds did the fragment ions possess the expected stable substituted cyclopropenium ion structure. Accordingly, possible schemes of molecular ion isomerization are given. The enthalpies of formation of nearly 50 substituted cyclopropenium ions, and ions of related structure, were estimated using series of isodesmic reactions. This publication, together with the previous works of the authors in this Journal, demonstrates the general methodology for estimation of the enthalpy of formation for even-electron ions. It is suggested that the present methodology can provide a good alternative to other estimation or computation procedures applied to the thermochemistry of ions.


2002 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 455-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.L. Jorge ◽  
L.C.A. Leiva ◽  
M.G. Castellanos ◽  
M.E. Gomez Vara ◽  
L.F.R. Cafferata ◽  
...  

We report the results obtained for the experimental determination and the theoretical calculation of the enthalpy of formation of 3,6-diphenyl-1,2,4,5-tetroxane molecule. The experimental work was performed using a macrocalorimeter to measure the combustion heat, and the sublimation enthalpy was determined via the measurement of the vapor pressure at equilibrium with the vapor phase at different temperatures resorting to the Clapeyron-Claussius equation. Theoretical calculations were performed using semiempirical AM1 and PM3 methods as well asab initiotechniques at the 3-21, 6-31G(d,p), and 6-311G(d,p) basis set levels.


2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-515
Author(s):  
Daniela Gheorghe ◽  
Ana Neacsu ◽  
Stefan Perisanu

A new value of the enthalpy of formation of cyclooctane (-156.2�1.2 kJ mol-1) based on heat of combustion measurements is reported. Its solid - liquid phase change was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry in both directions revealing an overcooling effect of over 23 K. Our enthalpy of formation of cyclooctane was used together with literature values of heats of hydrogenation of 8 carbon atoms cycloolefins to calculate the enthalpies of formation of the later. The strain energies of the investigated molecules were calculated and discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 2501-2508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihong Cheng ◽  
Alexandra Navrotsky

Enthalpies of formation from constituent oxides and elements at 298 K were determined by high-temperature oxide melt solution calorimetry for a group of technologically important perovskites LaBO3(B = La, Ga, Sc, and In). Enthalpies of formation from oxides of LaAlO3and LaGaO3are −69.61 ± 3.23 kJ/mol and −52.39 ± 1.99 kJ/mol, respectively. The data were consistent with literature values obtained using other methods. The enthalpies of formation of LaScO3and LaInO3from oxides were reported for the first time as −38.64 ± 2.30 kJ/mol and −23.99 ± 2.31 kJ/mol, respectively. As seen for other perovskites, as the tolerance factor deviates more from unity (in the order Al, Ga, Sc, In), the enthalpy of formation from oxides becomes less exothermic, indicating a less stable structure with respect to the constituent oxides.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 2824-2831 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Ranade ◽  
F. Tessier ◽  
A. Navrotsky ◽  
R. Marchand

The standard enthalpy of formation of InN at 298 K has been determined using high-temperature oxidative drop solution calorimetry in a molten sodium molybdate solvent at 975 K. Calorimetric measurements were performed on six InN samples with varying nitrogen contents. The samples were characterized using x-ray diffraction, chemical analysis, electron microprobe analysis, and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area measurement. The variation of the enthalpy of drop solution (kJ/g) with nitrogen content is approximately linear. The data, when extrapolated to stoichiometric InN, yield a standard enthalpy of formation from the elements of ?28.6 ± 9.2 kJ/mol. The relatively large error results from the deviation of individual points from the straight line rather than uncertainties in each set of data for a given sample. This new directly measured enthalpy of formation is in good agreement with the old combustion calorimetric result by Hahn and Juza (1940). However, this calorimetric enthalpy of formation is significantly different from the enthalpy of formation values derived from the temperature dependence of the apparent decomposition pressure of nitrogen over InN. A literature survey of the enthalpies of formation of III–N nitride compounds is presented.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1403-1409 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Weihs ◽  
T. W. Barbee ◽  
M. A. Wall

A technique to accurately measure the formation enthalpies of transition metal compounds at relatively low temperatures using thick multilayer foils and differential scanning calorimetry is demonstrated. The enthalpy of formation of Cu51Zr14 was measured using 25 μm thick, free-standing Cu–Zr multilayer foils. The multilayers were deposited onto Si substrates using a planetary, magnetron source sputtering system. They were removed from their substrates, cut into 6 mm diameter specimens, and scanned in temperature from 50 °C to 725 °C in a differential scanning calorimeter. Three distinct exothermic reactions were systematically observed. The heats from the first two reactions were summed and then analyzed using a simple model that accounts for interfacial reactions and heat losses during deposition. The enthalpy of formation for Cu51Zr14 was measured to be 14.3 ± 0.3 kJ/mol. This quantity agrees with the single value of ΔHf = 14.07 ± 1.07 kJ/mol reported in the literature for this Cu–Zr compound. The advantages of measuring formation enthalpies using thick multilayer foils and low temperature calorimetry are discussed.


1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 741 ◽  
Author(s):  
DP Graddon ◽  
WK Ong

Thermodynamic data have been obtained for the reaction in benzene solution of copper(11) complexes of hexafluoropentanedione and three trifluorinated α-diketones with several unidentate and bidentate heterocyclic bases and terpyridine. With pyridine the hexafluoro� complex forms very stable 1 : 1 and 1 : 2 adducts. The enthalpy of adduct formation (-ΔH) is about 39 kJ mol-1 for the addition of each molecule of pyridine, about 10 kJ mol-1 more than for the formation of the 1 : 1 adduct with the acetylacetone complex. The trifluoro complexes form only 1 : 1 adducts with enthalpy of formation about 31 kJ mol-1 ; these are much more stable than Cu(acac)2(py), but the extra stability is mainly due to entropy factors. With bipyridine and phenanthroline all four fluoro complexes form very stable 1 : 1 adducts with enthalpies of formation about twice those for addition of one molecule of pyridine; this shows that two Cu-N bonds are formed. 2,9-Dimethyl-1,l0-phenanthroline forms a similar adduct, but the enthalpy of formation is much less, due to steric interference. Terpyridine forms a 1 : 1 adduct of much lower stability, probably behaving as an ortho-substituted bidentate ligand. Infrared spectra of the adducts of Cu(tfaa)2 and Cu(hfaa)2 support molecular structures in which one of the Cu-O bonds linking each β-diketone is lengthened to allow the formation of a strong pair of Cu-N bonds.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1181-1185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Jie Liang ◽  
Alexandra Navrotsky ◽  
Thomas Ludwig ◽  
Hans J. Seifert ◽  
Fritz Aldinger

The enthalpies of formation of two rare-earth silicates (Y2SiO5 and Yb2SiO5) and a N-containing rare-earth silicate Y10(SiO4)6N2 have been determined using high-temperature drop solution calorimetry. Alkali borate (52 wt% LiBO2·48 wt% NaBO2) solvent was used at 800 °C, and oxygen gas was bubbled through the melt. The nitrogen-containing silicate was oxidized during dissolution. The standard enthalpies of formation are for Y2SiO5, Yb2SiO5, and Y10(SiO4)6N2, respectively, –22868.54 ± 5.34, –22774.75 ± 8.21, and –14145.20 ± 16.48 kJ/mol from elements, and –52.53 ± 4.83, –49.45 6 ± 8.35, and –94.53 ± 11.66 kJ/mol from oxides (Y2O3 or Yb2O3, SiO2) and nitride (Si3N4). The silicates and N-containing silicate are energetically stable with respect to binary oxides and Si3N4, but the N-containing silicate may be metastable with respect to assemblages containing Y2SiO5, Si3N4, and SiO2. A linear relationship was found between the enthalpy of formation of a series of M2SiO5 silicates from binary oxides and the ionic potential (z/r) of the metal cation.


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1855-1861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Lee ◽  
Alexandra Navrotsky

The enthalpy of formation of cubic yttria-stabilized hafnia from monoclinic hafnia and C-type yttria was measured by oxide melt solution calorimetry. The enthalpies of formation fit a function independent of temperature and quadratic in composition. The enthalpies of transition from m-HfO2 and C-type YO1.5, to the cubic fluorite phase are 32.5 ± 1.7 kJ/mol and 38.0 ± 13.4 kJ/mol, respectively. The interaction parameter in the fluorite phase is strongly negative, -155.2 ± 10.2 kJ/mol, suggesting even stronger short range order than in ZrO2–YO1.5. Regular solution theory or any other model assuming random mixing on the cation and /or anion sublattice is not physically reasonable. A more complex solution model should be developed to be consistent with the new calorimetric data and observed phase relations.


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