Stability field of the hcp-structure for Fe, Fe-Ni, and Fe-Ni-Si alloys up to 3 Mbar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Sakai, Takeshi ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Hirao, Naohisa ^b   Ohishi, Yasuo ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC WAVES; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

AXIAL RATIO; BODY-CENTERED CUBIC; EARTH'S ROTATION; HEXAGONAL CLOSE-PACKED; HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITION; INNER CORE; NI-SI ALLOY; PHASE RELATION; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES;

IRON ALLOYS;

ALLOY; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTH ROTATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INNER CORE; IRON; NICKEL; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEISMIC WAVE; SILICON; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 79955618039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047178     Document Type: Article

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