Diffusional mobility for fcc phase of Co-(Ni, and Fe) binaries:

a computational study

Y.-W. Cui, M. Jiang, I. Ohnuma, K. Oikawa, R. Kainuma, and K. Ishida

Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

Abstract

Diffusion data in two binary systems, i.e. Co-(Ni, and Fe), have been assessed to built a base
of the cobalt-based mobility database for the fcc phase. The general agreement was obtained
by comprehensive comparisons made between calculated and measured various diffusion
coefficients in literature. The mobility database, in conjunction with the available CALPHAD
-type thermodynamic description, was successfully used to simulate such typical diffusion-couple
experimental phenomena as the composition profile, the microstructural stability of the Kirkendall
plane and the lattice plane migration as functions of distance and time.

1.0 7
0.9 Hrebicek et al., [46] Co Ni
49 hours 6
0.8
Velocity*√time*109, (m*s-1/2)

Kirkendall Plane
Mole_Fraction Co

Present work 5 Matano Plane

0.7 49 hours v*t1/2=(z/t1/2)/2
16 hours 4
0.6 4 hours
0.5 3
Matano plane

0.4
Co Ni 2
0.3
1
0.2
0.1 a) 0

0 -1
b)
0 100 200 300 400 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10
Distance (µm) Distance/√time*107, (m*s-1/2)
Fig. a) Comparison of composition profile for the Ni/Co diffusion couple
after annealing at 1423 K for 4, 16 and 49 hours; b) Kirkendall velocity
construction for the Ni/Co diffusion couple.