Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys

Li, Dongxu; Jiang, Xu; Lin, Binhua; Meron, Mati; Rice, Stuart A

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235426

Title: Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys

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As part of a study of the in-plane wave-vector (q{sub xy}) dependence of the effective Hamiltonian for the liquid-vapor interface, H(q), the wave-vector dependences of diffuse x-ray scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute alloys of Bi in Ga, Tl in Ga, and Pb in Ga have been measured. In these dilute alloys the solute component segregates as a monolayer that forms the outermost stratum of the liquid-vapor interfaces, and the density distribution along the normal to the interface is stratified. Over the temperature ranges that the alloy interfaces were studied, the Tl and Pb monolayers exhibit both crystalline and liquid phases while the Bi monolayer is always liquid. The diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of these alloys displays interesting differences with that from the liquid-vapor interface of pure Ga. The presence of a segregated monolayer of solute in the liquid-vapor interface of the alloy appears to slightly suppress the fluctuations in an intermediate wave-vector range in a fashion that preserves the validity of the macroscopic capillary wave model to smaller wavelengths than in pure liquid Ga, and there is an increase in diffuse scattering when the Tl and Pb monolayers melt. The surface intrinsic roughness from fitting themore »« less

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Li, Dongxu; Jiang, Xu; Lin, Binhua; Meron, Mati; Rice, Stuart A ^[1]

Publication Date:: Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1008678

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Phys. Rev. B

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 72; Journal Issue: (23) ; 2005; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ALLOYS; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; DILUTE ALLOYS; DISTRIBUTION; EXCITATION; FLUCTUATIONS; HAMILTONIANS; ROUGHNESS; SCATTERING; SOLUTES; SURFACE TENSION; WAVELENGTHS

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                    Li, Dongxu, Jiang, Xu, Lin, Binhua, Meron, Mati, and Rice, Stuart A. Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys.  United States: N. p., 2010. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235426.

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                    Li, Dongxu, Jiang, Xu, Lin, Binhua, Meron, Mati, & Rice, Stuart A. Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235426

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                    Li, Dongxu, Jiang, Xu, Lin, Binhua, Meron, Mati, and Rice, Stuart A. 2010.  
        "Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235426.

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@article{osti_1008678,

  title        = {Diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute Bi:Ga, Tl:Ga, and Pb:Ga alloys},

  author       = {Li, Dongxu and Jiang, Xu and Lin, Binhua and Meron, Mati and Rice, Stuart A},

  abstractNote = {As part of a study of the in-plane wave-vector (q{sub xy}) dependence of the effective Hamiltonian for the liquid-vapor interface, H(q), the wave-vector dependences of diffuse x-ray scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of dilute alloys of Bi in Ga, Tl in Ga, and Pb in Ga have been measured. In these dilute alloys the solute component segregates as a monolayer that forms the outermost stratum of the liquid-vapor interfaces, and the density distribution along the normal to the interface is stratified. Over the temperature ranges that the alloy interfaces were studied, the Tl and Pb monolayers exhibit both crystalline and liquid phases while the Bi monolayer is always liquid. The diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interfaces of these alloys displays interesting differences with that from the liquid-vapor interface of pure Ga. The presence of a segregated monolayer of solute in the liquid-vapor interface of the alloy appears to slightly suppress the fluctuations in an intermediate wave-vector range in a fashion that preserves the validity of the macroscopic capillary wave model to smaller wavelengths than in pure liquid Ga, and there is an increase in diffuse scattering when the Tl and Pb monolayers melt. The surface intrinsic roughness from fitting the wave-vector dependence of surface tension is 5.0 pm for the Tl:Ga alloy and 1.4 pm for the Bi:Ga alloy. Also, a mode of excitation that contributes to diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interface of Pb in Ga, but does not contribute to diffuse scattering from the liquid-vapor interface of Ga, has been identified. It is proposed that this mode corresponds to the separation of the Pb and Ga layers in the regime 1 nm{sup -1} {le} q{sub xy} {le} 10 nm{sup -1}.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevB.72.235426},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1008678},
  journal      = {Phys. Rev. B},

  issn         = {1098-0121},

  number       = (23) ; 2005,

  volume       = 72,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010},

  month        = {Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010}

}

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