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A single law for the activation energies of self‐diffusion of various cubic metals, intermetallic compounds, ionic crystals and oxides
Author(s) -
Siethoff Hans
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200642239
Subject(s) - intermetallic , ionic bonding , ionic crystal , cubic crystal system , materials science , crystal structure , lattice constant , thermodynamics , crystallography , chemical physics , chemistry , metallurgy , physics , ion , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , alloy , diffraction
In previous publications the author put forward a relation which, for face‐centred cubic metals and intermetallic compounds with B2 and L1 2 structures, connected the activation energy of self‐diffusion with lattice constant and shear modulus. It is one aim of the present study to show that this formalism can be extended to intermetallic compounds with C1, D0 3 and C15 crystal structures. Since the covalently bonded cubic semiconductors and ceramics obey a different law, the question concerning the influence of the chemical bond was additionally investigated. Therefore ionic crystals and oxides with B1, B2 and C1 structures were analysed. It is demonstrated that these materials obey the same law as the metals and intermetallic compounds, for the B1 structure, however, the prefactor of the common rule is different. To be able to evaluate such differences, the proposed relation had to be more quantitatively derived than it was done before. Some cubic transition metals do not fit in the general picture. The deviations are traced back to the binding properties of the electronic d‐bands. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)