Local atomic ordering in nickel based Ir and Rh alloys

Experimental measurements of the diffuse X-ray scattering are performed on alloys of Ni with Rh and Ir. The atomic short range order (SRO) parameters αsub(i) are calculated from the measured intensity. The existence of SRO is established in the two systems. The values of α1 are observed to have anomalously large negative values for all the samples. The experimental data so obtained is interpreted theoretically by calculating the interaction energies on the basis of electronic theory of ordering. Theoretically calculated values of interaction energies are found to be in agreement with the experimentally determined type of order in these alloys. (author)