High-temperature studies of grain boundaries in ultrafine grained alloys by means of positron lifetime
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 62 (18), 12021-12027
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.62.12021
Abstract
Atomic free volumes and vacancies in the ultrafine grained alloys Cu 0.1 wt % and were studied by means of positron lifetime. The thermally stable microstructures serve as a novel type of model system for studying positron trapping and annihilation as well as the thermal behavior of vacancy-sized free volumes over a wide temperature range up to ca. 1200 K by making use of a metallic positron source. In ultrafine grained Cu the thermal formation of lattice vacancies could be observed. In an increase of the specific positron trapping rate of nanovoids and, in addition, detrapping of positrons from free volumes with a mean size slightly smaller than one missing atom in the grain boundaries contributes to a reversible increase of the positron lifetime of more than 60 ps with measuring temperature. In similar linear high-temperature increases of the positron lifetime are observed in the nanocrystalline and the amorphous state. The question of thermal vacancy formation in grain boundaries is addressed taking into account the different types of interface structures of the present alloys.
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