High-pressure synthesis of A15 Nb3Si phase from amorphous NbSi alloys

An amorphous phase has been produced in a binary Nb-19 at .% Si alloy by rapidly quenching from the molten state. Primary decomposition of the amorphous phase by annealing resulted in the production of a small quantity of the A15 cubic Nb₃Si phase. However, long annealing treatments led to the complete transformation to the equilibrium phases. Application of high pressure of 10 GPa during decomposition of the amorphous phase resulted firstly in the improved stability of the amorphous phase and secondly, in the production of a much larger quantity of the A15 cubic Nb₃Si phase. The lattice parameter of this phase was calculated to be 0.515 nm, in conformity with the previous investigations.     

Crystallization of mechanically alloyed amorphous W-Mg alloy under high pressure

Pure metal powder mixtures of W and Mg at the desired composition were milled in conventional high-energy ball mill, and amorphous alloy W₅₀Mg₅₀ was obtained after milling for 20 h. The structure evolution of elemental powder mixtures was studied following milling and subsequent high pressure and high temperature treatment. The amorphous alloy transform into a nanocrystalline material below 1050 °C at 4.0 GPa. On increasing the temperature, it transforms into a mixture of several new crystal phases under high-pressure condition. It also found that both mechanical alloying and high pressure treatment are the two necessary processes to form the nanocrystalline and the new phases.     

Bulk A15, high TC Nb3Si synthesized by shock compression

A shock wave compression technique has been used to convert bulk quantities of Nb₃Si into the A15 phase. The recovered material has a lattice parameter of 5.091 ± 0.006 Å. It also has an inductive T_C of 18.6 K and shows a large specific heat transition at 18.0 K.     

Anomalous behavior of superconducting transition temperature of amorphous and crystalline Nb3Ge under pressure

The superconducting transition temperature (T_c) of amorphous Nb₃Ge was studied under both hydrostatic and quasihydrostatic pressure to 3.5 and 13 GPa, respectively. Whereas hydrostatic pressure causes T_c to initially decrease, T_c is found to increase under higher quasihydrostatic pressures. T_c(p) was also studied on an A-15 crystalline Nb₃Ge sample obtained from the amorphous sample by annealing.     

Influence of structurization of amorphous Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 alloy on its spectral properties

The optical properties of Fe_73.5Si_13.5B₉Nb₃Cu₁ ferromagnetic alloy in the amorphous, nanocrystalline, and crystalline states have been investigated by optical ellipsometry in the spectral range of 0.22–18 μm. It is established that the crystallization of alloy during heat treatment leads to a significant change in its optical constants, as well as the frequency dependences of dielectric functions calculated based on these constants. The structural ordering is accompanied by a considerable increase in the intensity of the fundamental absorption band and an occurrence of its blue shift. Some characteristics of conduction electrons are determined, the numerical values of which also depend on the degree of atomic order.     

非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9合金激光纳米化的超精细结构研究

在CO2激光功率为50-300W、扫描速度为20mm/s、激光散光斑为20mm照射条件下,诱导非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9带中发生结构重组,产生定量纳米α-Fe(Si)晶相形成双相组织结构材料. 利用穆斯堡尔谱研究了非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9合金激光纳米化的超精细结构. 实验结果表明,激光诱导非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9纳米化后,其超精细磁场的分布随着激光功率变化由单峰向双峰变化,在高功率辐照时, 出现了双峰分布,并且峰位向高场移动. 高激光功率辐照非晶Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9合金纳米晶化相有四种超精细结构,即2个超精细磁场较小的初晶相和2个超精细磁场较大的纳米晶化相. 其中超精细磁场较大(17-25MA/m)的α-Fe(Si)相为DO3结构.     

Formation of diamond powders from melamine under high pressure and high temperature

High pressure pyrolysis of melamine has been attracting great interest recently, due to it being considered as a suitable precursor to realize the g-C₃N₄ and even superhard C₃N₄. In this work, we studied the detailed pyrolysis behavior of melamine at 22 GPa. Melamine was stable at 800 ℃, and decomposed to diamond in the form of powder at 1500-2000 ℃ under this pressure condition. At 2000 ℃, the pure cubic diamond powders with 0.1-0.5 μm grain size were obtained. The diamond particles exhibited euhedral forms and dispersed to each other, we proposed that these novel features were caused by the presence of liquid N₂ and NH₃ during diamond formation. The high pressure pyrolysis of melamine may provide a new means of producing micrometer-sized diamond powders.     

Phase transformations of the amorphous Zn-Sb alloy under high pressures

Abstract

Phase transformations occurring in initially amorphous Zn₄₁ Sb₅₉ semiconductor at pressures to 10 GPa and temperatures to 350C were studied using the measurement of electrical resistance, in situ energy dispersive X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction on quenched high-pressure phases at ambient pressure. The studied T- P region involves the regions of reversible and irreversible crystallisation and phase transitions between the equilibrium crystalline low-pressure and high-pressure phases.     

高压Ni77P23非晶合金自由体积变化的同步辐射研究

利用同步辐射高能X光散射的方法,研究了室温下非晶合金Ni77P23的自由体积的变化所引起的压缩行为的变化规律,通过傅里叶变换得到不同压力下的径向分布函数,并由此获得了不同压力下,该非晶合金的配位数、近邻原子间距等原子构型的结构信息. 研究表明,至直30.5GPa压力,Ni77P23合金仍保持稳定的非晶结构,根据Bridgman方程通过拟合数据,得到状态方程为 -ΔV/V0=0.08606P-3.2×10-4P2+5.7×10-6P3.     

高压Ni77P23非晶合金自由体积变化的同步辐射研究

利用同步辐射高能X光散射的方法，研究了室温下非晶合金Ni₇₇P₂₃的自由体积的变化所引起的压缩行为的变化规律，通过傅里叶变换得到不同压力下的径向分布函数，并由此获得了不同压力下，该非晶合金的配位数、近邻原子间距等原子构型的结构信息. 研究表明，至直30.5GPa压力，Ni₇₇P₂₃合金仍保持稳定的非晶结构,根据Bridgman方程通过拟合数据，得到状态方程为-ΔV/V₀=0.08606P-3.2×10^-4P²+5.7×10^-6P³. 关键词： 非晶合金 自由体积 同步辐射     

Specific heat of A-15 Nb3Si produced by explosive compression

The specific heat from 1.2 to 23 K has been measured on a new high T_c superconductor, A-15 Nb₃Si. The sample was prepared by explosive compression and has an onset of bulk superconductivity at 18.0 K, with a transition width of 0.7 K. The density of states for pure A-15 Nb₃Si implied from the specific heat data is 0.94 ± 0.20 states/eV-atom, ΔC/γ T_c is 2.0 ± 0.2.     

FeSi2合金在高压下的凝固

研究了压力对FeSi2合金凝固组织的影响.与常压下凝固的典型共晶组织不同，高压条件下的凝固组织为初生ε相树枝晶加离异共晶.高压下凝固组织的变化主要是与压力对相图的影响和对凝固过程中溶质原子扩散的影响有关.通过引入压力参量，推导了高压凝固过程中的成分过冷判据，并应用该判据分析了高压凝固树枝晶组织的形成机理. 关键词： 高压 凝固 FeSi2     

A15Nb3Si produced by high-pressure annealing of amorphous sputter deposits

A high-pressure annealing technique has been used to convert an amorphous Nb-23.7 at.% Si alloy, prepared by sputtering, into the A15 phase alloy. X-ray diffraction examination of the alloy samples quenched to ambient conditions has shown that they are in an almost single-phased state with a lattice parameter of 0.5120 nm and a high degree of atomic ordering. An onset of superconductivity has been detected at 8.9 K and a temperature derivative of upper critical field is 14 kOe/K (MA/4π mK).     

Change in the structure of amorphous alloys under high pressure

Physics of the Solid State - The influence of high pressure on the structure of amorphous alloys based on aluminum, iron, and cobalt is studied by X-ray diffraction, scanning, and transmission...     

Study of local environment of Cu atoms in Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9 alloy with different annealing temperature

The local environment of Cu atoms in Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9 alloy was investigated by extended X-ray absorption fine structure(EXAFS).Cu clusters began to order when the annealing temperature was around 733 K from the results of the Fourier transform curves.The fitting results showed that the first shell of the near fcc(face-centered cubic)Cu clusters only contained Cu atoms.The coordination number increased with the annealing temperature.Subsequently,the occupancy rate increased from 33.3%(annealed at 733 K)to 100% (annealed at 853 K).This local structural change of Cu atoms could probably affect the distribution of the bcc(body-centered cubic)α-Fe in Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9 alloy.     

Influence of rapid stress annealing on magnetic and structural properties of nanocrystalline Fe74.5Cu1Nb3Si15.5B6 alloy

Influence of rapid stress annealing on magnetic and structural properties of nanocrystalline Fe_74.5Cu₁Nb₃Si_15.5B₆ alloys is reported. Increase of stress during annealing reduces the initial permeability (from 2600 to 280) whereas the anisotropy field increases almost linearly (from 10 to 3470 A/m) showing the induction of anisotropy in the specimens. From WAXS experiments, volume fraction of the crystallites varies between 53 and 60% with quite similar average grain diameter (∼9 nm), increase of applied stress during annealing leads to the elongation of the unit cell. From Mössbauer spectra, increase of stress during annealing shows appreciable changes in spin texture.     

Peculiarity of the amorphous state obtained by rapid quenching from melt under high pressure

Abstract

The influence of the high pressure - high temperature treatment on the relaxation properties of the metallic glass Fe-18% B was investigated. To explain the experimental data we proposed the phenomenological two-parametric model of stresses in the amorphous state: tensile and compressing, similar to the two types of the defects.     

Superconductivity in ordered LiBe alloy under high pressure: A first-principles study

The electronic, vibrational, and superconducting properties of LiBe alloy in the P2₁/m structure under pressure have been investigated using first-principles calculations. The calculated electron–phonon coupling (EPC) of LiBe with both linear response theory and the rigid muffin-tin approximation suggested that pairing electrons are mainly mediated by the Li low-lying phonon vibrations, and the increase of the Li EPC matrix element $〈I_i^2〉$ with pressure is responsible for the increased EPC parameter $\lambda$. The application of the Allen–Dynes modified McMillan equation reveals high superconducting critical temperatures of 15.2 K at 80 GPa and 18.4 K at 100 GPa for P2₁/m LiBe.     

Superconducting A15 compounds of the NbGe,NbSi and NbGeSi systems prepared by chemical vapor deposition

A15 compounds of the NbGeSi system have been deposited by the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique on sapphire substrates. In the present paper the relevant deposition conditions are reported. Results of sample characterisation and low-temperature properties of the deposits are discussed.