Phase structure of the Fe-Ti layers produced by the IPD method

This paper is concerned with the synthesis of Fe-Ti layers under the impulse mass and energy transport. The synthesis method employed in the present study was impulse plasma deposition. The synthesis processes were conducted in an apparatus equipped with two independent impulse plasma accelerators operated alternately. The material was an Fe-Ti alloy. The sources of Fe and Ti were the internal electrodes of the impulse plasma accelerators, made of titanium and iron. The phase structure of the Fe-Ti layers was studied using X-ray diffraction and conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS). The phases identified were α-Fe, α-Ti, β-Ti bcc-Fe(Ti), crystalline intermetallic FeTi, amorphous FeTi and amorphous Fe-Ti-C.