Abstract
An expression for the time rate-of-change of the thickness of the surface phase was derived using a simple approximation. It was shown that in the asymptotic limit of long times, the thickness of the end phase is linearly proportional to time, while the coarsening rate is proportional to the square of the compositional strain and inversely proportional to the film thickness.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1027-1032 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 13 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Division of Materials Science at the Department of Energy through Grants DE-FG02-99ER45770 (PHL) and DE-FG02-99ER45771 (WCJ).