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Chemomechanics in alloy phase stability
Physical Review Materials ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.8.033801 Sesha Sai Behara , John C. Thomas , Brian Puchala , Anton Van der Ven
Physical Review Materials ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.8.033801 Sesha Sai Behara , John C. Thomas , Brian Puchala , Anton Van der Ven
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We describe a first-principles statistical mechanics method to calculate the free energies of crystalline alloys that depend on temperature, composition, and strain. The approach relies on an extension of the alloy cluster expansion to include an explicit dependence on homogeneous strain in addition to site occupation variables that track the degree of chemical ordering. The method is applied to the Si-Ge binary alloy and is used to calculate free energies that describe phase stability under arbitrary epitaxial constraints. We find that while the incoherent phase diagram (in which coexisting phases are not affected by coherency constraints) hosts a miscibility gap, coherent phase equilibrium predicts ordering and negative enthalpies of mixing. Instead of chemical instability, the chemomechanical free energy exhibits instabilities along directions that couple the composition of the alloy with a volumetric strain order parameter. This has fundamental implications for phase field models of spinodal decomposition as it indicates the importance of gradient energy coefficients that couple gradients in composition with gradients in strain.
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