Thermoelasticity and interdiffusion in CuNi multilayers

Benoudia, M.C.; Gao, Fang; Roussel, Jean Marc; Labat, S.; Gailhanou, M.; Thomas, O.; Beke, Dezső L.; Erdélyi, Zoltán; Langer, G.A.; Csík, A.; Kis-Varga, M.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.85.235404

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“…Atomic diffusion in Ni/Cu system has been extensively studied in the literature [10,11,[14][15][16][17][18][19]. A large asymmetry exists between volume diffusivities of Cu-in-Ni and Ni-in-Cu.…”

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“…This asymmetry results in composition dependent diffusivities which in turn cause interfaces to sharpen on thermal annealing [15,20]. X-ray diffraction studies on coherent Cu/Ni multilayers have evidenced layer by layer diffusion of Ni at the interfaces [18]. All these studies have been done at sufficiently high temperatures at which volume diffusivity is appreciable.…”

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Interface sharpening in miscible and isotopic multilayers: Role of short-circuit diffusion

Tiwari

Gupta

et al. 2019

Phys. Rev. B

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Atomic diffusion at nanometer length scale may differ significantly from bulk diffusion, and may sometimes even exhibit counterintuitive behavior. In the present work, taking Cu/Ni as a model system, a general phenomenon is reported which results in sharpening of interfaces upon thermal annealing, even in miscible systems. Anomalous x-ray reflectivity from a Cu/Ni multilayer has been used to study the evolution of interfaces with thermal annealing. Annealing at 423 K results in sharpening of interfaces by about 38%. This is the temperature at which no asymmetry exists in the inter-diffusivities of Ni and Cu. Thus, the effect is very general in nature, and is different from the one reported in the literature, which requires a large asymmetry in the diffusivities of the two constituents [Z. Erdélyi et al., Science 306, 1913(2004.]. General nature of the effect is conclusively demonstrated using isotopic multilayers of 57 Fe/ natural Fe, in which evolution of isotopic interfaces has been observed using nuclear resonance reflectivity. It is found that annealing at suitably low temperature (e.g. 523 K) results in sharpening of the isotopic interfaces. Since chemically it is a single Fe layer, any effect associated with concentration dependent diffusivity can be ruled out. The results can be understood in terms of fast diffusion along short-circuit paths like triple junctions, which results in an effective sharpening of the interfaces at relatively low temperatures.

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