The Impact of Vibrational Entropy on the Segregation of Cu to Antiphase Boundaries in Fe3Al

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081723:_____/21:00544632 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00122335

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry7080108" target="_blank" >10.3390/magnetochemistry7080108</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Impact of Vibrational Entropy on the Segregation of Cu to Antiphase Boundaries in Fe3Al

Original language description

We performed a quantum mechanical study of segregation of Cu atoms toward antiphase boundaries (APBs) in Fe3Al. The computed concentration of Cu atoms was 3.125 at %.The APBs have been characterized by a shift of the lattice along the h001i crystallographic direction. The APB energy turns out to be lower for Cu atoms located directly at the APB interfaces and we found that it is equal to 84 mJ/m2. Both Cu atoms (as point defects) and APBs (as extended defects) have their specific impact on local magnetic moments of Fe atoms (mostly reduction of the magnitude). Their combined impact was found to be not just a simple sum of the effects of each of the defect types. The Cu atoms are predicted to segregate toward the studied APBs, but the related energy gain is very small and amounts to only 4 meV per Cu atom. We have also performed phonon calculations and found all studied states with different atomic configurations mechanically stable without any soft phonon modes. The band gap in phonon frequencies of Fe3Al is barely affected by Cu substituents but reduced by APBs. The phonon contributions to segregation-related energy changes are significant, ranging from a decrease by 16% at T = 0 K to an increase by 17% at T = 400 K (changes with respect to the segregation-related energy difference between static lattices). Importantly, we have also examined the differences in the phonon entropy and phonon energy induced by the Cu segregation and showed their strongly nonlinear trends.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Magnetochemistry

ISSN

2312-7481

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

000690598200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111654240