Concentration effects in multicomponent metallic solid solutions

Abstract

In the equiatomic approximation, the dependence of the lattice FCC parameter and the Debye temperature from the atomic fate x of the doping element, which is alternately represented by all elements of a multicomponent solid solution, including high-entropy alloys were obtained. The calculations were carried out on the example of a five-component (based on Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, and Al) or six-component (based on Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, and Cr, Ti) metal systems. It was found that by varying x within x = (0 - 0.3), it is possible to obtain a change in the lattice FCC parameter from 0 to 0.03 nm and the Debye temperatures from 0 to 80 K. The proposed new characteristics are integral and differential concentration coefficients, the magnitude and sign of which can predict concentration dependences for the lattice parameter and the Debye temperature.

Keywords

• lattice parameter
• debye temperature
• multicomponent and high-entropy solid solution
• equiatomic approximation
• concentration coefficients