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Xu D, Wang Z, Chang TY, Saini JS, Chen WY, Li M, Zhu Y. Direct transformation of equilateral hexagonal Frank vacancy loops to stacking fault tetrahedra under thermal fluctuation. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:385702. [PMID: 35803250 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac7fd5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Stacking fault tetrahedra (SFTs) are highly interesting three-dimensional vacancy defects in quenched, plastically deformed or irradiated face-centered-cubic metals and have a significant impact on the properties and subsequent microstructural evolution of the materials. Their formation mechanism and stability relative to two-dimensional vacancy loops are still debated. Equilateral hexagonal Frank vacancy loops (faulted, sessile) observed in microscopy have been considered unable to directly transform to SFTs due to separation of Shockley partial dislocations as well as embryonic stacking faults. Here using sufficiently long (up to tens of nanoseconds) molecular dynamic simulations, we demonstrate that such a transformation can in fact take place spontaneously at elevated temperatures under thermal fluctuation, reducing potential energy of defected atoms by <0.05 eV/atom. The transformation becomes easier with increasing temperature or decreasing loop size.
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Affiliation(s)
- Donghua Xu
- Materials Science Program, School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, 2000 SW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States of America
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- Materials Science Program, School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, 2000 SW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States of America
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- Materials Science Program, School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, 2000 SW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States of America
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- Materials Science Program, School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, 2000 SW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States of America
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- Nuclear Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, United States of America
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- Nuclear Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, United States of America
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 97 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3136, Storrs, CT 06269, United States of America
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Historical Perspective on Diffraction Line-Profile Analyses for Crystals Containing Defect Clusters. CRYSTALS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst9050257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Deviations of crystal diffraction line profiles from those predicted by the dynamical theory of diffraction for perfect crystals provide a window into the microscopic distributions of defects within non-perfect crystals. This overview provides a perspective on key theoretical, computational, and experimental developments associated with the analysis of diffraction line profiles for crystals containing statistical distributions of point defect clusters, e.g., dislocation loops, precipitates, and stacking fault tetrahedra. Pivotal theoretical developments beginning in the 1940s are recalled and discussed in terms of their impact on the direction of theoretical and experimental investigations of lattice defects in the 1960s, the 1970s, and beyond, as both experimental and computational capabilities advanced. The evolution of experimental measurements and analysis techniques, as stimulated by theoretical and computational progress in understanding the distortion fields surrounding defect clusters, is discussed. In particular, consideration is given to determining dislocation loop densities and separate size distributions for vacancy and interstitial type loops, and to the internal strain and size distributions for coherent precipitates.
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Bacon D, Osetsky Y, Rodney D. Chapter 88 Dislocation–Obstacle Interactions at the Atomic Level. DISLOCATIONS IN SOLIDS 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1572-4859(09)01501-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Osetsky YN, Serra A, Singh BN, Golubov SI. Structure and properties of clusters of self-interstitial atoms in fcc copper and bcc iron. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1080/01418610008212155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Osetsky YN, Serra A, Victoria M, Golubov SI, Priego V. Vacancy loops and stacking-fault tetrahedra in copper. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1080/01418619908210422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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