Lévy-flight intermixing: anomalous nanoscale diffusion in Pt/Ti

Details Lévy-flight intermixing: anomalous nanoscale diffusion in Pt/Ti Lévy-flight intermixing: anomalous nanoscale diffusion in Pt/Ti

2008-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/0802.2220v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 3 figures

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Probing the anomalous nanoscale intermixing using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in Pt/Ti bilayer we reveal the superdiffusive nature of interfacial atomic transport. It is shown that the Pt atoms undergo anomalous atomic transport across the anisotropic interface of Pt/Ti with suprisingly high rates which can be characterized as L\'evy flights. L\'evy flight is not a unique phenomenon in nature, however, no such events have been reported yet for bulk interdiffusion. In particular, the low-energy (0.5 keV) ion-sputtering induced transient enhanced intermixing has been studied by MD simulations. Ab initio density functional calculations have been used to check and reparametrize the employed heteronuclear interatomic potential. The L\'evy-intermixing behavior explains the high diffusity tail in the concentration profile obtained by Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling (AES-DP) analysis in Pt/Ti bilayer (reported in ref.: P. S\"ule, {\em et al.}, J. Appl. Phys., {\bf 101}, 043502 (2007)).

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