Solids defect equilibria

This type of defect equilibrium treatment has been used extensively to model the defect chemistry and non-stoichiometry of inorganic substances and has the great advantage that it easily takes several simultaneous defect equilibria into account [22], On the other hand, the way the mass action laws are normally used they are focused on partial thermodynamic properties and not on the integral Gibbs energy. The latter is often preferred in other types of thermodynamic analyses. In such cases the following solid solution approach is an alternative. 

Let us consider the defect equilibrium, with the condition Pqi < 1 0 ° at fixed temperature, where Pq denotes the equilibrium oxygen pressure at <5 = 0. In this condition, oxygen escapes from the solid phase by the following reactions... 

In crystals, non-steady state component transport locally alters the number, and sometimes even the kind, of point defects (irregular SE s). As a consequence, the relaxation of defect concentrations takes place continuously during chemical interdiffusion and solid state reactions. The rate of these relaxation processes determines how far local defect equilibrium can be established during transport. 

In other cases, however, and in particular when sublattices are occupied by rather immobile components, the point defect concentrations may not be in local equilibrium during transport and reaction. For example, in ternary oxide solutions, component transport (at high temperatures) occurs almost exclusively in the cation sublattices. It is mediated by the predominant point defects, which are cation vacancies. The nearly perfect oxygen sublattice, by contrast, serves as a rigid matrix. These oxides can thus be regarded as models for closed or partially closed systems. These characteristic features make an AO-BO (or rather A, O-B, a 0) interdiffusion experiment a critical test for possible deviations from local point defect equilibrium. We therefore develop the concept and quantitative analysis using this inhomogeneous model solid solution. 

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The reactivity of solids is brought about almost entirely as a result of the disorder in crystals. The most important lattice defects in connection with chemical reactions are point defects. In order that a chemical reaction may take place in a finite time, it must be carried out above a certain minimum temperature, where the defects which give rise to transport have a sufficiently large mobility. Therefore, in most cases it can be assumed that local defect equilibrium is attained during a reaction, as long as there are sufficient sources and sinks for point defects. 

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Having finished our detailed introduction, we can now turn to the central topics of this book, the first of which is the thermodynamics of the real solid at equilibrium. That means that we have to study the defects which we can classify according to their dimensionality. 

We can use defect equilibria expressions and equilibrium relations to understand the relation between the properties of solids and the gas environments in which they are processed. In this section, we go through two examples of gas-defect equilibrium involving compound semiconductors, AB. We can consider defects in sublattice A or sublattice B. However, the ratio of site A to site B must remain fixed, as defined by the stoichiometry. 

Surely, it is now time to reformulate the questions considered to be fundamental to shock-compression science. The questions must consider shock-compressed matter as it exists as a highly defective solid, heterogeneous in character, with significant anisotropic components and heterogeneous processes that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium. 

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