NICKEL-RICH SOLID SOLUTIONS IN BINARY ALLOYS WITH TIN, GERMANIUM, AND SILICON

Abstract

By rapidly cooling liquid alloys, single-phase nickel-rich solid solutions have been obtained to [Formula: see text] at.% tin, ~20 at.% germanium, and [Formula: see text] at.% silicon. The lattice parameters measured for the metastable structures as well as for some alloys within the equilibrium single-phase region suggest linear variations with solute content, with slopes (in units of 10⁻³ Å/at.% solute) of +8.5 for tin, +1.9₄ for germanium, and −0.5₅ for silicon.