Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 55, Issue 19, Pages 6627-6633Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2007.08.016
Keywords
grain boundary diffusion; alumina bicrystals; SIMS; HREM
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The yttrium doping effect on grain boundary diffusion was directly estimated using bicrystal experiments. For this purpose, pristine and yttrium-doped alpha-Al2O3 bicrystals with the same geometrical configuration were fabricated. The grain boundary oxygen diffusion coefficients were measured by the isotopic tracer profiling technique using secondary ion mass spectrometry. The grain boundary diffusion coefficients of the pristine and yttrium-doped boundary were best described as delta D-gb = 8.4 x 10(-6) exp (-627 [kJ/mol]/RT) and delta D-gb = 6.5 x 10(-4) exp (-729 [kJ/mol]/RT), respectively. It was thus found that yttrium doping retards grain boundary diffusivity by approximately 10 times compared to the pristine crystals, while their activation energies were not greatly different. On the other hand, the simultaneously obtained volume diffusion coefficient showed similar values to previously reported results, indicating that extrinsic diffusion occurred in the grain interior. Taking these facts into account, the yttrium effect can be explained by a site blocking mechanism or a swamp out mechanism, or by both of these. (c) 2007 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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