Alloys ternary

Temary and quaternary semiconductors are theoretically described by the virtual crystal approximation (VGA) [7], Within the VGA, ternary alloys with the composition AB are considered to contain two sublattices. One of them is occupied only by atoms A, the other is occupied by atoms B or G. The second sublattice consists of virtual atoms, represented by a weighted average of atoms B and G. Many physical properties of ternary alloys are then expressed as weighted linear combinations of the corresponding properties of the two binary compounds. For example, the lattice constant d dependence on composition is written as ... 

Go Binary and Ternary Alloyed Thin Films. Most of the thin-film media for longitudinal and perpendicular recording consist of Co—X—Y binary or ternary alloys. In most cases Co—Cr is used for perpendicular recording while for the high density longitudinal media Co—Cr—X is used X = Pt, Ta, Ni). For the latter it is essential to deposit this alloy on a Cr underlayer in order to obtain the necessary in-plane orientation. A second element combined with Co has important consequences for the Curie temperature (T ) of the alloy, at which the spontaneous magnetisation disappears. The for... 

The first semiconductor lasers, fabricated from gallium arsenide material, were formed from a simple junction (called a homojunction because the composition of the material was the same on each side of the junction) between the type and n-ty e materials. Those devices required high electrical current density, which produced damage ia the region of the junction so that the lasers were short-Hved. To reduce this problem, a heterojunction stmcture was developed. This junction is formed by growing a number of layers of different composition epitaxially. This is shown ia Figure 12. There are a number of layers of material having different composition is this ternary alloy system, which may be denoted Al Ga his notation, x is a composition... 

In the Ee—Al—Si ternary system, alloys close to the 9.5 Si, 5.6 A1 composition exhibit very low magnetostriction and anisotropy. As a result, these show very high values of initial and maximum permeabiHty. However, the ternary alloys are very britde, a factor which limits their general usefiilness. 

Ternary Alloys. Almost ah commercial ahoys are of ternary or higher complexity. Ahoy type is defined by the nature of the principal ahoying additions, and phase reactions in several classes of ahoys can be described by reference to ternary phase diagrams. Minor ahoying additions may have a powerflil influence on properties of the product because of the influence on the morphology and distribution of constituents, dispersoids, and precipitates. Phase diagrams, which represent equhibrium, may not be indicative of these effects. 

The commercial production of silicon in the form of binary and ternary alloys began early in the twentieth century with the development of electric-arc and blast furnaces and the subsequent rise in iron (qv) and steel (qv) production (1). The most important and most widely used method for making silicon and silicon alloys is by the reduction of oxides or silicates using carbon (qv) in an electric arc furnace. Primary uses of silicon having a purity of greater than 98% ate in the chemical, aluminum, and electronics markets (for higher purity silicon, see Silicon AND SILICON ALLOYS, PURE SILICON). 

AHoy scrap containing tin is handled by secondary smelters as part of their production of primary metals and alloys lead refineries accept solder, tin drosses, babbitt, and type metal. This type of scrap is remelted, impurities such as iron, copper, antimony, and zinc are removed, and the scrap is returned to the market as binary or ternary alloy. The dross obtained by cleaning up the scrap metal is returned to the primary refining process. 

An alloy system is all the alloys you can make with a given set of components "the Cu-Zn system" describes all the alloys you can make from copper and zinc. A binary alloy has two components a ternary alloy has three. 

DEF. A binary alloy contains two components. A ternary alloy contains three a quaternary, four, etc. 

Lipson (1943, 1944), who had examined a copper-nickeMron ternary alloy. A few years ago, on an occasion in honour of Mats Hillert, Cahn (1991) mapped out in masterly fashion the history of the spinodal concept and its establishment as a widespread alternative mechanism to classical nucleation in phase transformations, specially of the solid-solid variety. An excellent, up-to-date account of the present status of the theory of spinodal decomposition and its relation to experiment and to other branches of physics is by Binder (1991). The Hillert/Cahn/Hilliard theory has also proved particularly useful to modern polymer physicists concerned with structure control in polymer blends, since that theory was first applied to these materials in 1979 (see outline by Kyu 1993). 

The small size of lithium frequently confers special properties on its compounds and for this reason the element is sometimes termed anomalous . For example, it is miscible with Na only above 380° and is immiscible with molten K, Rb and Cs, whereas all other pairs of alkali metals are miscible with each other in all proportions. (The ternary alloy containing 12% Na, 47% K and 41% Cs has the lowest known mp, —78°C, of any metallic system.) Li shows many similarities to Mg. This so-called diagonal relationship stems from the similarity in ionic size of the two elements / (Li ) 76pm, / (Mg ) 72pm, compared with / (Na ) 102pm. Thus, as first noted by Arfvedson in establishing lithium as a new element, LiOH and LiiCOs are much less soluble than the corresponding... 

From all the ternary alloys studied, Pd4oNi4oP2o has the highest glass formability, and 25-mm diameter amorphous cylinders, 50 mm in length, can be easily fabricated. 

By adding a third element (C) it is possible to increase the likelihood of forming compound BO, at a lower concentration than would be required in the pure binary alloy /4-B, provided that the third element C has an affinity for O intermediate between that of A and B" . If the mobility of B in the ternary alloy is high enough and element C has sufficient thermodynamic activity in the alloy to form CO, then the potential of O may be lowered to such an extent that BO forms more readily, i.e. element C acts as a getter for element B. Such behaviour is characteristic of, for instance, Fe-Al-Si and Fe-Cr-Si alloys. 

With industry proving to be so conservative about binary alloys it is hardly surprising that ternary alloys receive little attention. Nevertheless, two ternary alloys at least have become commercially available iron-chromium-nickel (so-called stainless steel) for both functional and domestic markets and an electronic connector and solderable alloy based on copper-zinc-tin. 

Other alloy additions in commercial use include iron (often a two-layer electroplated coating with less iron—typically 20% —in the under-layer to assist formability and more iron—often 80% —in the outer layer to assist paintability) cobalt (0.15-0.35%) similar amounts of chromium (the zinc/ chromium/chromium-oxide coating known as Zincrox) and a range of ternary alloys and of composite coatings. 

Iridium has been deposited from chloride-sulphamate and from bromide electrolytes , but coating characteristics have not been fully evaluated. The bromide electrolytes were further developed by Tyrrell for the deposition of a range of binary and some ternary alloys of the platinum metals, but, other than the platinum-iridium system, no commercial exploitation of these processes has yet been made. 

In conclusion, it must be emphasised again that commercial materials are never pure metals or pure binary or ternary alloys. They always contain... 

These materials are useful semiconductors and have a wide range of industrial applications, particularly in opto-electronics. One of their attractive features is the possibility of tailoring the band gap and the lattice constant in the ternary alloys by varying the composition. CVD is now a major production process of these materials. 

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