SPONTANEOUS ALLOYING IN NANOMETER-SIZED AMORPHOUS ANTIMONY CLUSTERS

H. Yasuda and H. Mori
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H. Yasuda: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
H. Mori: Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1996, vol. 03, issue 01, 1167-1170

Abstract: Alloying behavior of gold atoms into namometer-sized amorphous antimony (a-Sb) clusters has been studied by TEM. Gold atoms which came in contact with a-Sb clusters quickly dissolved into the clusters, and clusters of either an a-(Sb-Au) alloy or the compoundAuSb2were formed, depending on the gold concentration in clusters. The ease with which such rapid spontaneous alloying takes place decreased with increasing size of original a-Sb clusters. It is suggested that the origin and mechanism of rapid spontaneous alloying are common to both amorphous and crystalline atom clusters.

Date: 1996
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