Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5366905 | Applied Surface Science | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
With the aim of understanding the thermal stability of binary immiscible metallic multilayers, we propose a generally size-dependent thermodynamic criterion for determining the interface alloying in multilayers, with respect to the size-dependent interface energy of binary metal systems. Taking the copper/tungsten bilayer as an example, we obtain the interfacial alloying phase diagram based on the proposed thermodynamic model. Our theoretical predictions are consistent with experiments, implying that the size-dependent thermodynamic criterion of the thermal stability could be expected to be applicable to many multilayers.
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Authors
G. Ouyang, C.X. Wang, S.W. Li, X. Zhou, G.W. Yang,