Molecular dynamics studies on the local disordering of Σ3 and Σ11 grain boundaries in aluminium bicrystal

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using Morse interaction potential are performed in studies of [110] symmetrical tilt grain boundary (GB) structures with mis-orientation angles 50.5°(Σ11), 129.5°(Σ11), 70.5°(Σ3) and 109.5°(Σ3) at various tempratures. The GB structures are found to start local disordering at about 0.5T _m (T _m is the melting point of aluminium) for 50.5°(Σ11), 0.32T _m for 129.5° (Σ11) and 0.38T _m for 70.5°(Σ3), respectively. These results agree with conclusions deduced from the anelastic measurements. But, for twin-boundary structure 109.5°(Σ3), this disordering has not been found even when temperature increases up to 0.9T _m . The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Laboratory for Non-linear Mechanics of Continuous Media, Institute of Mechanics, Academia Sinica.     

氧化锌纳米带中的面缺陷

面缺陷是纳米带中非常普遍和非常重要的一类缺陷。在有些情况下，面缺陷对于高表面能指数面的出现起着决定性的作用。同时。它们可以诱导纳米带沿着特殊的方向生长。面缺陷可以是孪晶或双晶，层错和由杂质原子聚集在特定原子面所形成的间隙原子层。在本文中。利用透射电子显微术，我们将介绍氧化锌纳米带中被发现的几种面缺陷。我们确认了两种孪晶／双晶结构，它们的孪晶面分别是（01^-13）和（^-2112）面。基面层错有I1和I2两种。在大尺寸的纳米带中，I1基面层错可以折叠到（2^110）面形成棱面层错。当少量的In离子掺入氧化锌纳米带后，我们发现伴随着杂质In在基面的聚集，形成了两种倒反畴界。     

晶界内耗研究的新进展

由不同取向差的纯Al双晶的内耗实验观察到，不同类型晶界的弛豫参量有明屁差别。用耦合模型对内耗数据的分析表明，小角度晶界内耗的基本机制是位错攀移，而大角度晶界内耗的基本机制是晶界扩散。在此基础上，对多晶中晶界内耗的一些特征也作了解释。     

Study of magnetoresistance and conductance of bicrystal grain boundary in La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 thin film

La_0.67Ba_0.33MnO₃ (LBMO) thin film is deposited on a 36.7°C SrTiO₃ bicrystal substrate using laser ablation technique. A microbridge is created across bicrystal grain boundary and its characteristics are compared with a microbridge on the LBMO film having no grain boundary. Presence of grain boundary exhibits substantial magnetoresistance ratio (MRR) in the low field and low temperature region. Bicrystal grain boundary contribution in MRR disappears at temperature T>175 K. At low temperature, I-V characteristic of the microbridge across bicrystal grain boundary is nonlinear. Analysis of temperature dependence of dynamic conductance-voltage characteristics of the bicrystal grain boundary indicates that at low temperatures (T<175 K) carrier transport across the grain boundary in LBMO film is dominated by inelastic tunneling via pairs of manganese atoms and tunneling through disordered oxides. At higher temperatures (T>175 K), magnetic scattering process is dominating. Decrease of bicrystal grain boundary contribution in magnetoresistance with the increase in temperature is due to enhanced spin-flip scattering process.     

晶界内耗的研究

晶界内耗是中国科学家葛庭燧开创的一个研究领域．以往晶界内耗的研究主要是用多晶试样进行的．最近作者用不同取向差的双晶试样研究了单个晶界的内耗，取得了一些新的结果．文章综述了研究晶界内耗的意义以及新近的进展．     

Fatigue Crack Nucleation at Σ3(1 1 2) Boundary in a Ferritic Stainless Steel

The effect of a geometrical relationship between a grain boundary (GB) plane and a tensile axis on intergranular fatigue cracking along 3(1 1 2) twin boundaries has been investigated in Fe-30%Cr alloy crystals. Fatigue experiments were carried out on the three kinds of the specimens containing the 3(1 1 2) twin boundary. It was found that the fatigue cracking behavior was sensitive to the geometry of the GB plane. In a specimen where both the GB plane and a slip vector lying in the GB plane in adjacent grains are inclined to the tensile axis at 45°, the fatigue cracks were nucleated preferentially along the twin boundary at a stress amplitude of 170 MPa. The specimen with the GB plane normal to the tensile axis showed that the fatigue crack was initiated from a slip band formed within a constituent grain at a stress amplitude of 300 MPa. When the GB plane was inclined to the tensile axis but the slip vector lying in the GB plane was normal to the tensile axis, development of additional slips formed perpendicular to the GB plane were observed at a specific site of the GB. Initiation of intergranular fatigue cracks at the site was recognized at a stress amplitude of 250 MPa. It can be suggested that the GB plane normal to the tensile axis provides the highest fatigue performance among them. The difference in the cracking property among these specimens could be understood in terms of the effective Schmid factor derived from elastically incompatible stress.     

各向异性双晶和三晶体弹塑性应力场分析

用三维弹塑性晶体滑移有限元程序对不同晶体取向的双昌和三晶体在昌界和三晶交点处的应力集中科技司和滑激活规律进行了计算分析。双晶体在计算时考虑取向的影响,计算结果表明,晶界处应力有较大的出现复杂的变化规律,这种规律与晶体取向相关;三晶交点和晶界使得三晶体应力重新分布,三晶交点可能是应力集中之地,但也可能不造成应力集中,这主要与三个晶体取向相关。本文计算表明,只有仔细地研究细观过程,才能准确理解金属材料     

Internal friction in Al bicrystals with ⟨111⟩ tilt and twist grain boundaries

Internal friction measurements were performed on various ?111? tilt and twist grain boundaries in high-purity Al bicrystals. The temperature dependence of the grain boundary internal friction peak was determined, and the activation parameters of grain boundary relaxation were obtained. These parameters were found to change in a wide range depending on boundary geometry. The activation enthalpy of boundary relaxation and the pre-exponential factor of the relaxation time are related according to the compensation effect. The results are discussed in terms of the model of correlated relaxations. Bicrystals with vicinal Σ3 boundaries were observed to behave like single crystals, i.e. an internal friction peak did not appear. This evidences that both coherent and incoherent (60° ?111? tilt) twins possess a high mechanical resistance.     

高温超导薄膜衬底材料-SrTiO_3双晶的研究

SrTiO3双晶基片是高温超导电子学研究中外延YBCO薄膜所需要的基础材料;是制作高温超导量子干涉器件(SQUID)的核心。由于其特殊的制造工艺,加之研究因素所附加的高昂成本,至今只有少数国家涉足这一领域。文中展示作者在钛酸锶双晶研究方面所取得的阶段性进展。