Comprehensive ab initio thermodynamic treatment of impurities in ordered alloys: Application to boron in B2 Fe-Al

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2255021-2255024

  Besson, Remy ^a   Legris, Alexandre ^a   Morillo, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CREEP; GROUND STATE; IMPURITIES; IRON ALLOYS; POINT DEFECTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS (GGA);

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037175943     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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