Crystal growth and precipitation in thin films of amorphous Fe–Au alloys
- 1 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Philosophical Magazine
- Vol. 32 (5), 1007-1021
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14786437508221669
Abstract
Metastable alloys of the Fe–Au system have been prepared by the vapour quenching technique. The films so obtained are studied by resistivity measurements and by transmission electron microscopy and diffraction. Alloys containing more than 60 at. % Fe are amorphous at low temperature and a transformation to a metastable b.c.c. solid solution occurs at a temperature ranging from 80 to 250 K when the concentration varies from 80 to 60 at. % Fe. A further annealing at higher temperature leads to the precipitation of a gold-rich f.c.c. phase which grows, in a platelet structure, from linear defects formerly observed in the metastable b.c.c. phase. Kinetic parameters of the crystallization and orientation relationship between the phases during the precipitation are determined.Keywords
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