A weak compatibility condition for precipitation with application to the microstructure of PbTe-Sb2Te3 thermoelectrics

被引:9
作者
Chen, Xian [1 ]
Cao, Shanshan [2 ]
Ikeda, Teruyuki [3 ]
Srivastava, Vijay [1 ]
Snyder, G. Jeffrey [4 ]
Schryvers, Dominique [2 ]
James, Richard D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, Dept Aerosp Engn & Mech, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Univ Antwerp, Electron Microscopy Mat Sci EMAT, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
[3] Japan Sci & Technol Agcy, PRESTO, Kawaguchi, Saitama 3320012, Japan
[4] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
基金
日本科学技术振兴机构; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Compatibility; Precipitation; Widmanstatten microstructure; Thermoelectric materials; SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOYS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY; HYSTERESIS; BEHAVIOR; SB2TE3; PBTE; NI;
D O I
10.1016/j.actamat.2011.06.025
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We propose a weak condition of compatibility between phases applicable to cases exhibiting full or partial coherence and Widmanstatten microstructure. The condition is applied to the study of Sb2Te3 precipitates in a PbTe matrix in a thermoelectric alloy. The weak condition of compatibility predicts elongated precipitates lying on a cone determined by a transformation stretch tensor. Comparison of this cone with the long directions of precipitates determined by a slice-and-view method of scanning electron microscopy combined with focused ion beam sectioning shows good agreement between theory and experiment. A further study of the morphology of precipitates by the Eshelby method suggests that interfacial energy also plays a role and gives an approximate value of interfacial energy per unit area of 250 dyn cm(-1). (C) 2011 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:6124 / 6132
页数:9
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