Preface

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

PART I: SOLIDIFICATION THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS

A Calorimetric Evaluation of the Role of Impurities in the Nucleation of Secondary Phases in 1xxx Al Alloys

C.M. Allen

K.A.Q. O'Reilly

P.V. Evans

B. Cantor

Grain Refinement in Undercooled Metals

J.Z. Xiao

H. Yang

H.W. Kui

Subcritical Bifurcation From Planar to Cellular Interface in Al-0.5 wt.% Cu Directionally Solidified

O. Fornaro

H. Palacio

H. Biloni

Transitory Metastable Phases in Refractory Metals-Based Systems Solidified by Drop-Tube Processing: A First-Principles Approach

A. Pasturel

B. Vinet

Melting vs. Solidification of a Pure Metal Analysed by DSC

N. Clavaguera

M.T. Clavaguera-Mora

J. Fontan

J. L. Touron

C. Comas

Mechanisms of Layer Structure Formation in Peritectic Alloys

P. Mazumder

R. Trivedi

A. Karma

Microstructure of Ni2B Laser-Induced Surface-Alloyed α-Fe

G. Dehm

C. Scheu

M. Bamberger

Interface Morphological Stability of Unidirectionally Solidified RE123 Superconductor

M. Sumida

Y. Shiohara

T. Umeda

Effects of Finite Rate Phase Transformation Kinetics on the Steady-State Solidification Front Propagation Speed in Undercooled Pure Liquids

J.A. Norris

D.R. Kassoy

Superdendrites in Directional Solidification of Polymer-Solvent Mixtures

Rolf Ragnarsson

Brian Utter

Eberhard Bodenschatz

Eutectic Growth in Unidirectionally Solidified Fe-Cr-Ni Alloy

Toshimitsu Okane

Takateru Umeda

The Solidification Microstructure of Al-Cu-Si Alloys Metal-Matrix Composites

O. Garbellini

H. Palacio

H. Biloni

Growth of Single-Crystal YIG Fibers by the Laser Heated Pedestal Growth Method

HanJin Lim

R.C. DeMattei

R.S. Feigelson

Formation of a Metastable bcc Solid Solution and Decomposition to a C15 Laves Phase in Melt-Spun CrNb10Ti10

Katherine C. Chen

Paul G. Kotula

Fuming Chu

Dan J. Thoma

PART II: NUCLEATION

Derivation of the Kinetics of Phase Transformations With Nucleation and Growth Mechanism

G. Yu

S.T. Lee

J.K.L. Lai

Time-Dependent Nucleation in Partitioning Systems

K.F. Kelton

K. Lakshmi Narayan

Nucleation Modes in Sharp Concentration Gradients

F. Hodaj

A.M. Gusak

A.O. Kovalchuk

P.J. Desre

Particle Nucleation in Dissipative Systems

K.C. Russell

J.C.F. Rangel

Phase Separation: From the Initial Nucleation Stage to the Final Ostwald Ripening Regime

Celeste Sagui

Dean Stinson O'Gorman

Martin Grant

Domain-Spatial Correlation Function of Spherulitic Domain Evolution in Polymer Films

Tao Huang

Tomohiro Tsuji

M.R. Kamal

A.D. Rey

Time-Dependent Nucleation in a Bulk Metallic Glass-Forming Alloy

T.K. Croat

K.F. Kelton

Correlation Functions for Nanostructures Obtained by Nucleation and Growth Kinetics

D. Crespo

V. Garrido

PART III: SOLID-STATE TRANSFORMATIONS AND MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION

Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations of Diffusion and Decomposition Kinetics in Fe-Cu Alloys: Embedded-Atom and Nearest-Neighbor Potentials

B.D. Wirth

G.R. Odette

A Possible Mechanism for Atomic Transport in Amorphous Metals

Leon D. van Ee

Barend J. Thijsse

Jilt Sietsma

Computer Simulations of the Chessboardlike Microstructure Formation in Decomposing Alloys

Y. Le Bouar

A.G. Khachaturyan

Evolution of γ Precipitation Kinetics and Morphology in a Ni-13.36 at.% Al Alloy Aged Under Compression

S.V. Prikhodko

R.T. Nielsen

A.J. Ardell

Approximations for Vibrational Thermosynamics of Disordered Alloys: Effective Supercells and the Quasiharmonic Method

Didier de Fontaine

Jeffrey Althoff

Dane Morgan

Mark Asta

Stephen Foiles

Andrew Quong

Duane Johnson

Energetics of Stable and Metastable Low-Temperature Iron Oxides and Oxyhydroxides

Ch. Laberty

A. Navrotsky

Vacancy Properties in 5d BCC Transition Metals: Ab Initio Study at Finite Electron Temperature

Alessandra Satta

F. Williame

Stefano de Gironcoli

Evolution of γ Precipitate in IN-713C for Long Aging Treatments

A. Ges

O. Fornaro

H. Palacio

Computer Investigations on Phase Decomposition in Real Alloy Systems Based on a Discrete-Type Phase Field Method

Toru Miyazaki

Toshiyuki Koyama

Takao Kozakai

Competition Between SRO and LRO in CuAu3

M. Kompatscher

H. Lang

W. Puschl

W. Pfeiler

Refinement of Size Distributions for Primary Crystallizations

E. Pineda

T. Pradell

D. Crespo

N. Clavaguera

J. Zhu

M.T. Clavaguera-Mora

Coarsening of B2 Ordered Domains by Monte Carlo Simulations

D. Le Floc'h

M. Athenes

P. Bellon

The Li2 to DO19 Phase Transformation in the Intermetallic Compound Fe3Ge

Q.Z. Chen

A.H.W. Ngan

B.J. Duggan

AC Field-Induced Polarization Disordering in the Ferroelectric Phase of Modified PZT Ceramics

Q. Tan

D. Viehland

Effects of Hafnium, Heat Treatment, and Cycling Under Applied Stress on the Transformations of Cold Worked NiTi-Based Shape-Memory Alloys

Chen Zhang

Ralph H. Zee

Paul E. Thoma

John J. Boehm

Shape Evolution and Splitting of a Single Coherent Particle

J.D. Zhang

D.Y. Li

L.Q. Chen

Effect of Phase Transformations on Hardness of Semiconductors

B.A. Galanov

O.N. Grigor'ev

Y.G. Gogotsi

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Phase Separation in Model Binary Alloy Systems with Elasticity

D. Orlikowski

C. Sagui

A.S. Somoza

C. Roland

Stress-Driven Collective Nucleation of Dislocation Loops

Y.Q. Sun

P.M. Hazzledine

D.M. Dimiduk

Reentrance and Multistriped Phases in the Blume-Emery-Griffiths Model With Biased Diffusion

Geetha Seshaaiyar

Susan R. McKay

Production and Study of Ca/Sn(II) Metastable Fluoride Ion Conductors

Michael F. Bell

Georges Denes

Zhimeng Zhu

Mobility of Ag Atoms in the Binary System Ag2Se-Ag2S: A Molecular-Dynamics Study

A. Smith

R. Ravelo

N. Pingitore

Orientational Order Phase Transition in Solid C60

J.R. Soto

R.M. Valladares

A. Calles

Diffusion Via Native Defects, and the Appropriate Choice of Independent Thermodynamic Variables in Both Quasi-Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Experimental Designs

R.M. Cohen

Kinetics of Ordering in Cu3Au

H. Lang

W. Pfeiler

Electric-Field Effects on Reactions Between Oxides

Matthew T. Johnson

Shelley R. Gilliss

C. Barry Carter

Nucleation and Growth of Precipitates in Transformations Driven by Diffusion

N. Clavaguera

M.T. Clavaguera-Mora

Crystallography of Hydride Formation in Zr-Nb Alloys

D. Srivastava

G.K. Dey

S. Banerjee

S. Ranganathan

Ordered Omega Derivatives in (Zr3Al)-Nb Alloys

R. Tewari

G.K. Dey

P. Mukhopadhyay

S. Banerjee

L.A. Bendersky

Precipitation Kinetics in an Air-Cooled Aluminum Alloy: A Comparison of Scanning and Isothermal Calorimetry Measurement Methods

George W. Smith

Effects of Aging and Thermal Cycling Treatments on the Damping Capacity of Cu-Mn Alloys

T.S. Chung

J.H. Jun

Y.K. Lee

Underpotential-Overpotential Phase Transformation Phenomena in Copper Deposition Processes on Glassy Carbon

T.A. Arzhanova

Iron Precipitation and Dissolution in Float-Zone Silicon

Deepak A. Ramappa

Worth B. Henley

Characterization of Composite Ceramic High Level Waste Forms

S.M. Frank

K.J. Bateman

T. DiSanto

S.G. Johnson

T.L. Moschetti

M.H. Noy

T.P. O'Holleran

PART IV: BEAM-INDUCED TRANSFORMATIONS

Strained Ion Tracks in Amorphous Solids: Origin of Plastic Defornation

H. Trinkaus

H.R. Schober

Disordering in the Ni-Al System Under Low-Dose Ion Irradiation: A Computer Simulation Study

A. Almazouzi

M. Alurralde

M. Spaczer

M. Victoria

Phase Formation in Zr/Fe Multilayers During Kr Ion Irradiation

A.T. Motta

A. Paesano, Jr.

R.C. Britcher

E.A. Ryan

M.E. Bruckmann

S.R. Teixeira

L. Amaral

Role of Interstitial and Interstitial-Impurity Interaction on Irradiation-Induced Segregation in Austenitic Steels

M. Nastar

P. Bellon

G. Martin

J. Ruste

Onionlike Nanoscale Structures and Fullerene-Type Cages Formed by Electron Irradiation of Turbostratic BxC1-x(x<0.2)

D. Golberg

Y. Bando

K. Kurashima

T. Sasaki

From Semiconductor to Metal in a Flash: Observing Ultrafast Laser-Induced Phase Transformations

J.P. Callan

A.M.-T. Kim

L. Huang

E.N. Glezer

E. Mazur

Phase Transitions During Ion-Beam Irradiation of the Perovskite-Structure Oxides

A. Meldrum

L.A. Boatner

R.C. Ewing

Phase Transformation and Ion-Beam-Induced Crystallization in SiC Layers Formed by MEVVA Implantation of Carbon Into Silicon

Dihu Chen

S.P. Wong

L.C. Ho

H. Yan

R.W.M. Kwok

Radiation Damage of a Glass-Bonded Zeolite Waste Form Using Ion Irradiation

B.G. Storey

T.R. Allen

Response of Zircon to Electron and Ne+ Irradiation

R. Devanathan

W.J. Weber

L.A. Boatner

PART V: AMORPHOUS SOLIDS

Investigation of Phase Formation During Cold Rolling of Elemental Zr-Al-Ni-Cu Foils With Bulk Glass-Forming Composition

A. Sagel

H. Sieber

H.J. Fecht

J.H. Perepezko

Amorphization of Zr-Al Under Mechanical Alloying at Different Temperatures: A Reentrant Melting Phenomenon

H.W. Sheng

K. Lu

E. Ma

Nonequilibrium Formation of Silicon Nitride During Both Ball Milling and Ion Bombardment

Z.L. Li

J.S. Williams

D.J. Llewellyn

J. Wong-Leung

M. Giersig

D.J. Chivers

Changes in Mass Density and Sound Velocity of Amorphous Pd80Si20 by Low-Temperature Ion Irradiation

G. Schumacher

R.C. Birtcher

D.P. Renush

M. Grimsditch

L.E. Rehn

Diffusion-Governed-Asymmetric Growth of Amorphous Layer Under Solid-State Reaction in Ni-Zr Multilayers

B.X. Liu

W.S. Lai

Crystallization of Amorphous Ribbon in NiTi-Cu Shape-Memory Alloy

F. Yang

J.L. Ma

Z.J. Pu

K.H. Wu

Recrystallization of Si-, As-, and BF2-Implanted, Bonded SOI

M. Tamura

M. Horiuchi

Amorphous to Crystalline Phase Transformation in Metglas® Studied by Mossbauer Spectroscopy

V. Marquina

R. Gomez

S. Aburto

M. Jimenez

R. Ridaura

M.L. Marquina

R. Valenzuela

Surface-Energy-Driven Crystallization of Amorphous Pd81Si19

Gerhard Schumacher

Rajeshwar P. Wahi

Densification and Crystallization Kinetics of Cordierite Glass-Ceramic Coatings on Rigid Substrates

Jesus Noel Calata

Sihua Wen

Guo-Quan Lu

Influence of Mo on the Epitaxial Crystallization of Silicon

S. Thoma

J.K.N. Lindner

B. Stritzker

Magnetic Softening and Hardening in Metglas® 2605SC at the Onset of Nanocrystallization

S. Aburto

M. Jimenez

V. Marquina

R. Gomez

M.L. Marquina

R. Ridaura

R. Valenzuela

Temperature Dependence and Annealing Effects of Absorption Edges for Selenium Quantum Dots Formed by Ion Implantation in Silica Glass

A. Ueda

M. Wu

R. Mu

Y-S. Tung

D.O. Henderson

A. Meldrum

R.A. Zuhr

J.D. Budai

C.W. White

J.C. Keayand

L.C. Feldman

PART VI: INTERFACIAL AND THIN-FILM TRANSFORMATIONS

Initial Phase Formation During Interdiffusion

J.H. Perepezko

J.S. Park

K. Landry

H. Sieber

M.H. da Silva Bassani

A.S. Edelstein

Atomic-Scale Study of Precipitate/Matrix Interfaces in a Metallic Alloy

I. Rozdilsky

A. Cerezo

G.D.W. Smith

A. Watson

Interface Diffusion in Polysynthetically-Twinned TiAl

D.E. Luzzi

D. Imamura

H. Inui

E.P. George

L. Heatherly

H. Yasuda

H. Mori

M. Yamaguchi

Metastable Phase Formation and Microstructural Evolution During Self-Propagating Reactions in Al/Ni and Al/Monel Multilayers

D. Van Heerden

A.J. Gavens

S. Jayaraman

T.P. Weihs

In Situ TEM Phase Formation in Cold-Rolled Aluminum-Nickel Multilayers

H. Sieber

J.H. Perepezko

Structural Stability Diagrams for Thin-Film Multilayers

S.A. Dregia

R. Banerjee

H.L. Fraser

Interfacial Reaction in Aluminum/Carbon Multilayer Thin Films

K. Landry

H. Sieber

M. Sui

J.H. Perepezko

In Situ UHV TEM Investigations of the Initial Oxidation Stage of Copper Thin Films

J.C. Yang

M. Yeadon

B. Kolasa

J.M. Gibson

Modeling Self-Propagating Exothermic Reactions in Multilayer Systems

S. Jayaraman

A.B. Mann

A.B. Mann

O.M. Knio

D. Van Heerden

G. Bao

T.P. Weihs

The Selective Synthesis of Molybdenum Silicides From Modulated Elemental Reactants

Christopher D. Johnson

David C. Johnson

Formation of Metallic Systems Far From Equilibrium by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Hans-Ulrich Krebs

Marco Hamp

Sebastian Fahler

Michael Stormer

Kai Sturm

Martin Weisheit

The Formation of Cu3Si From Cu/a-Si Multilayers

R.R. Chromik

W.K. Neils

E.J. Cotts

Thermal Drag of the Antiphase Domain-Boundary Motion

A. Umantsev

Structure, Morphology, and Kinetics of the C49 to C54 Phase Transformation in TiSi2 Thin Films

S. Bocelli

F. Marabelli

M. Iannuzzi

L. Miglio

M.G. Grimaldi

F. LaVia

The Cubic to Hexagonal Phase Transition in Spray Deposited Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Films

A. Malik

R. Nunes

R. Martins

Pseudo-C11b Phase Formation of Titanium Disilicide During the C49 to C54 Transition

Patrick L. Smith

Bill Brennan

Richard Ortega

Taner Yildirim

PART VII: NANOPHASES AND MECHANICAL ALLOYING

Phase Transformation as a Function of Particle Size in Nanocrystalline Zirconia

Thomas Chraska

Alexander H. King

Christopher C. Berndt

J. Karthikeyan

Phase Stability in the Nanocrystalline TiO2 System

Hengzhong Zhang

Jillian F. Banfield

Oxidation Dynamics of Nanophase Aluminum Clusters: A Molecular-Dynamics Study

Shuji Ogata

Timothy J. Campbell

Kenji Tsuruta

Aiichiro Nakano

Rajiv K. Kalia

Priya Vashishta

Chun-K. Loong

Point Defects and the B2 to fcc Transformation in Milled FeRh

Luke S-J. Peng

Gary S. Collins

Low-Temperature Mechanical Alloying of Cu-Fe and Cu-Ta Powders

J-H. He

E. Ma

Microstructure Evolution in Al-Ag Alloys Under Severe Plastic Deformation

F. Haider

H. Voss

Phase Evolution During Ball Milling of Al in NH3 and Subsequent Annealing

J.I. Nikolov

J.S. Williams

D.J. Llewellyn

A. Calka

Metastable Phase Formation in Mechanically Alloyed Sm-Co-Fe

P.A.I. Smith

J. Ding

P.G. McCormick

R. Street

Molecula-Dynamics Calculations of Melting and Fragmentation of Ar and Ag Clusters

A.M. Mazzone

Phases Driven Far From Equilibrium by Applying Mechanical Energy: Phase Transformations to γ-PbSnF4 Upon Ball Milling

Georges Denes

Delphine Le Roux

M. Cecilia Madamba

Phase Transitions in Lead(II) Fluoride Upon Milling

Georges Denes

M. Cecilia Madamba

Author Index

Subject Index