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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 108, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3456500
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- Scientific User Facilities Division
- Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE
- Department of Energy through the Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-03ER46055, W-31-109-ENG-38]
- DOE-BES [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- DOE-NNSA
- NSF [DMR-0520547]
- DOD-TACOM
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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The phonon density of states (DOS) gives insight into interatomic forces and provides the vibrational entropy, making it a key thermodynamic function for understanding alloy phase transformations. Nuclear resonant inelastic x-ray scattering and inelastic neutron scattering were used to measure the chemical dependence of the DOS of bcc Fe-Co alloys. For the equiatomic alloy, the A2 -> B2 (chemically disordered -> chemically ordered) phase transformation caused measurable changes in the phonon spectrum. The measured change in vibrational entropy upon ordering was -0.02 +/- 0.02 k(B)/atom, suggesting that vibrational entropy results in a reduction in the order-disorder transition temperature by 60 +/- 60 K. The Connolly-Williams cluster inversion method was used to obtain interaction DOS (IDOS) curves that show how point and pair variables altered the phonon DOS of disordered bcc Fe-Co alloys. These IDOS curves accurately captured the change in the phonon DOS and vibrational entropy of the B2 ordering transition. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3456500]
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