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Title: Hydrogen Gorsky effect in amorphous Cu{sub 50}Ti{sub 50}

Journal Article · · Acta Metallurgica et Materialia
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  1. Univ. of Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan). Inst. of Materials Science

A previous investigation for the short range diffusion of hydrogen in amorphous Cu{sub 20}Ti{sub 50} suggests that there exist six representative atomic structures for the small clusters of the tetrahedra, where a short range jump of a hydrogen atom takes place with the activation energies E{sub 0}, E{sub 1}, ..., E{sub 5}(E{sub 0} > E{sub 1} > ... > E{sub 5}). In the present work, the long range connectivity of these hydrogen sites with various E{sub m}(m = 0 to 5) in amorphous Cu{sub 50}Ti{sub 50} is investigated in the hydrogen concentration range below 15 at.% by means of the hydrogen Gorsky effect (HGE) measurements. HGE is always observed to be composed of two constitutents, HGE-1 and 2. HGE-1 is surmised to be HGE through the whole thickness of a specimen, and HGE-2 to be HGE in some local-regions with the effective diffusion length of several {mu}m reflecting a distribution of internal stress in a specimen. The activation energy for HGE-1, E{sub G}{sup (1)}, is always found at around E{sub 1} or in between E{sub 0} and E{sub 2}, suggesting that there is no long range diffusion path spanning only the sites with lower E{sub 3} to E{sub 5}. E{sub G}{sup (2)} for HGE-2 is slightly higher than E{sub G}{sup (1)}. These results are discussed in the light of the site percolation.

OSTI ID:
143156
Journal Information:
Acta Metallurgica et Materialia, Vol. 42, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English