Events
Place: CALPHAD XXXIX, Jeju, South Korea
Jean Crivello, Université de Paris, Jomdan, Paris, France
Mauro Palumbo
Taichi Abe, Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Jean Joubert, Université de Paris, Paris, France
For the first time, the enthalpies of formation at 0 K of all the ordered configurations in a
ternary σ-phase, i.e. 35=243 configurations, have been calculated using the electronic first
principles methodology. The Density Functional Theory (DFT) method has been used in the
Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA), with Projector Augmented Wave (PAW)
pseudo-potentials, as implemented in Vienna ab initio Simulation Package (VASP).
The Cr-Mo-Re system has been judiciously chosen to be investigated since the two
binary Cr-Re and Mo-Re σ-phase are known for showing inverse Re sites preference: high
coordination number (CN) sites in Cr-Re [1] and low CN in Mo-Re [2]. Occupancies of the
inequivalent sites have been computed as a function of composition and temperature using the
only configurational entropy, in the Bragg-Williams approximation.
The results show that the Cr-Mo-Re σ-phase presents a miscibility gap at low
temperature and that the Gibbs energy surface is convex above ~750K. Re site preference is
shown to change progressively in the ternary field when passing from Mo-Re to Cr-Re binary
borders. The relative stability of this ternary phase will be discussed by analyzing the
crystallographic parameters and the electronic properties features.
References
[1] M. Palumbo, T. Abe, C. Kocer, H. Murakami, H. Onodera, in preparation
[2] J.-C. Crivello and J.-M. Joubert, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 (2010) 035402.
