Role of Site-selective Doping on Melting Point of CuTi Alloys: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

Details Role of Site-selective Doping on Melting Point of CuTi Alloys: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study Role of Site-selective Doping on Melting Point of CuTi Alloys: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

2011-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3396v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

16 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

Effect of site-selective substitution of Ti in Cu on the thermal stability of CuTi alloy is investigated using classical molecular dynamics simulations with Embedded Atom Method potentials. It has been observed experimentally that melting point of all the naturally occurring stable phases of CuTi alloys do not show a definite trend with gradual increase in Ti concentration. To understand the phenomenon, super cells of CuTi alloy are constructed where Cu atom is substituted by Ti randomly and at selective sites. For random substitution, the melting point decreases linearly with increase in Ti concentration. A non-monotonous dependence is seen when Cu atoms at selective sites are replaced by Ti. For a particular doping concentration, the melting point shows a wide range of variation depending on the order of atomic arrangement, and can be fine tuned by selecting the sites for substitution. The variations in melting points in different cases are explained in terms of the peak height, width and position of the corresponding radial distribution functions. Finally, it is verified that initial structures of the naturally occurring CuTi alloys are responsible for the non-definite trend in their melting points.

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