Interdiffusion in a superlattice: an exploratory nuclear magnetic resonance study

Autor: D St P Bunbury, M R Wells, M A H McCausland, J W Ross, Yang Li, R C C Ward
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 9:6301-6311
ISSN: 1361-648X
0953-8984
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/9/29/015
Popis: We have carried out an exploratory NMR study of interdiffusion at interfaces between epitaxially grown laminae of rare-earth metals. The system investigated was a terbium - yttrium superlattice grown by molecular-beam epitaxy at . The NMR spectrum of shows satellites associated with Tb ions with different numbers of Y neighbours and therefore provides information about the yttrium concentration profile resulting from interdiffusion. Our data are interpreted in terms of a model based on thermally activated diffusion and which allows for the progressive decrease in , the RMS diffusion length, from the lowest to the highest interface. The diffusion coefficient, provisionally assumed to be independent of composition, is found to be at the growth temperature.
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