Intermetallic compound formation periodic table

Figure 1. Periodic table showing intermetallic compound formation from the reaction of clean metal surfaces with -5000L of SiH4. Temperature required to grow thin films are indicated above the table. Solid areas indicate metals studied in our laboratory, while the cross-hatched areas refer to elements which should be employable based on thin film interdiffusion precedents.

Phase diagrams of the 11th group metals. The intermetallic reactivity patterns of Cu, Ag and Au are similar, with no compound formation in the middle of the Periodic Table (groups 5-9 for Cu and Ag, about 6-9 for Au). 

Intermetallic chemistry of Be, Mg, Zn, Cd and Hg 5.12.4.1 Phase diagrams of the Be, Mg, Zn, Cd and Hg alloys. The systematics of the compound formation of these metals in their binary alloys with the different elements is summarized in Fig. 5.33. On the overall they give a rather complex picture even so a number of relationships and similarities between various pairs of metals may be singled out. To go into this point in more detail, in the same figure a comparison has also been made with the compound formation patterns of Ca and A1 which are described in 5.4 and 5.13 but are close in the Periodic Table to the metals here considered. The similarity between the Be and Zn patterns may be underlined, as also that between Be and Al, being an example of the so-called diagonal relationships presented in 4.2.2.2. 

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