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Depth Profile of Structure, Strain, and Composition in an Annealed Al-Cu-Fe-Cr Quasicrystalline Film

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

M.J. Daniels ,
D. King ,
J.S. Zabinski ,
Z.U. Rek  and
J.C. Bilello
M.J. Daniels
Affiliation:
Center for Nanomaterials Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
D. King
Affiliation:
Technology Assessment and Transfer, Annapolis, MD, 21108
J.S. Zabinski
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433
Z.U. Rek
Affiliation:
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94309
J.C. Bilello
Affiliation:
Center for Nanomaterials Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
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Abstract

Quasicrystalline films were formed by RF sputtering from a powder composite target onto Inconel substrates, which produces a polymorphic nanoquasicrystalline grain structure, ~2.5 - 10 nm. Subsequent annealing at 500°C for 4 hours, at base pressures of below 5*10-5 Torr, and with Ar flow to 5 - 10 mT, fully develops the quasicrystalline structure with decagonal phase predominating, except near the termination surface. Analysis by XPS indicated extensive oxygen incorporation and limited aluminum enrichment at the termination surface. These results are correlated with structure and strain analysis via synchrotron grazing incidence x-ray scattering (GIXS). By varying the incident angle, hence the x-ray penetration depth, the evolution of an amorphous and crystalline crystalline secondary phases at the surface of the film has been detected. Residual strain analysis shows that this second phase induces a compressive residual strain of 0.10% as measured from the displacement of the major quasicrystalline peaks in the surface layers of the film.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 695: Symposium L – Thin Films: Stresses and Mechanical Properties IX , 2001 , L12.4.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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