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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778941703321

Autore

Philibert J (Jean)

Titolo

Atom movements : diffusion and mass transport in solids / / Jean Philibert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Les Ulis, France : , : Editions de Physique, , [1991]

©1991

ISBN

2-7598-0172-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (603 p.)

Collana

Monographies de physique

Disciplina

530.415

Soggetti

Transport theory

Kirkendall effect

Diffusion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xix]-xxi) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Foreword -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Translator’s Acknowledgments -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- General Bibliography -- Notation -- CHAPTER I: DIFFUSION AND DRIFT -- CHAPTER II: ATOMIC THEORY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER III: DIFFUSION MECHANISMS AND CORRELATION EFFECTS -- CHAPTER IV: SELF-DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER V: SOLUTE DIFFUSION IN PURE MATERIALS. DIFFUSION IN ALLOYS -- CHAPTER VI: DIFFUSION AND DRIFT IN ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS -- CHAPTER VII: DIFFUSION IN MEDIA OF LOWER DIMENSIONALITY -- CHAPTER VIII: PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER IX: TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER X: THE STUDY OF SOME DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED PROCESSES -- EXERCISES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The present book is the result of diverse courses on diffusion. It is intended to give as complete an overview as possible of diffusion in solid media, while relating the process of diffusion to both their physical bases and their applications. A series of a real situations is covered in this account, from self-diffusion of radiotracers to the more complex cases of mass flow under chemical or thermal gradients or under electric fields, or diffusion in structures of lower dimensionality (surfaces and interfaces). In all these analyses, no category of materials



was favored; metals, ionic crystals, oxydes, and semiconductors all had their turn. Only polymers were not specifically touched. One chapter is specifically devoted to techniques for studying diffusion, including methods of numerical simulation, and a last and long chapter gives a number of metallurgical phenomena in which diffusion plays a fundamental role.