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Nucleation mechanism of the sigma-to-alpha phase transition in Fe<sub>1-x</sub>Cr<sub>x</sub>

Author(s)
Alice Mikikits-Leitner, Bogdan Sepiol, Michael Leitner, Jakub Cieslak, Stanislaw Mieczyslaw Dubiel
Abstract

This Rapid Communication reports on Mossbauer-spectroscopy measurements of the kinetics of the sigma-to-alpha phase transition in the system Fe-Cr. By isothermally annealing samples of the compositions Fe53.8Cr46.2 and Fe51Cr49 at temperatures between 820 and 855 degrees C the authors gained information about the kinetics of the phase transition in terms of the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov equation. The obtained values for the Avrami exponent allow to draw conclusions about the type of nucleation mechanism. The behavior of the Avrami exponent for near-critical temperatures and for higher temperatures indicates a change in the nucleation mechanism with T-T-c.

Organisation(s)
Dynamics of Condensed Systems
External organisation(s)
AGH University of Science and Technology
Journal
Physical Review B
Volume
82
No. of pages
4
ISSN
1098-0121
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.100101
Publication date
2010
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
1030 Physics, Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/407a47b0-24f2-482c-8136-f1d495fe3dbe