Issue |
EPL
Volume 82, Number 6, June 2008
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Article Number | 66005 | |
Number of page(s) | 3 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/66005 | |
Published online | 06 June 2008 |
Si self-diffusion in cubic B20-structured FeSi
1
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä - P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland, EU
2
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki - P.O. Box 43, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland, EU
3
Institut für Materialphysik, Universität Münster - Wilhelm-Klemm Strasse 10, D-48149 Münster, Germany, EU
Corresponding author: jyrki.raisanen@helsinki.fi
Received:
25
March
2008
Accepted:
5
May
2008
Self-diffusion of implanted 31Si in the ε-phase FeSi (cubic B20-structure) has been determined in the temperature range 660 810
C using the modified radiotracer technique. With an activation enthalpy of 2.30 eV and a pre-exponential factor of 15
10-8 m2 s-1 the silicon diffusivity was found to be slightly slower than Ge impurity diffusion in FeSi. This difference is proposed to originate from attractive elastic interactions prevailing between the slightly oversized Ge atoms and the Si sublattice vacancies. The results confirm the argument that 71Ge radioisotopes may be used to substitute the short-lived 31Si radiotracers when estimating self-diffusion in silicides.
PACS: 66.30.H- – Self-diffusion and ionic conduction in nonmetals / 66.30.J- – Diffusion of impurities
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