Publication Date
5-31-2018
Department
Ames Laboratory; Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Campus Units
Ames Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1439596
Report Number
IS-J 9663
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.055004
Journal Title
Physical Review Materials
Volume Number
2
Issue Number
5
First Page
055004
Abstract
From electronic-structure-based thermodynamic linear response, we establish chemical ordering behavior in complex solid solutions versus how Gibbs' space is traversed—applying it on prototype refractory A2 Ta-Nb-Mo-W high-entropy alloys. Near ideal stoichiometry, this alloy has anomalous, intricate chemical ordering tendencies, with long-ranged chemical interactions that produce competing short-range order (SRO) with a crossover to spinodal segregation. This atypical SRO arises from canonical band behavior that, with alloying, creates features near the Fermi surface (well defined even with disorder) that change to simple commensurate SRO with (un)filling of these states. Our results reveal how complexity and competing electronic effects control ordering in these alloys.
DOE Contract Number(s)
AC02-07CH11358
Language
en
Department of Energy Subject Categories
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
