Published June 26, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

A time-resolved X-ray scattering experiment for the study of phase transitions and crystallization processes in metallic alloys

  • 1. Centre for the Physics of Materials, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T8, (Canada)
  • 2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (United States)
  • 3. Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (United States)
  • 4. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)

Description

An experimental setup to perform high-resolution time-resolved X-ray scattering has been commissioned on the side station of beamline 8-ID at the Advanced Photon Source. A Peltier-cooled diode detector array covering an angle range of 20 degrees is mounted on a 4-circle goniometer and is used to temporally resolve X-ray scattering patterns with a resolution up to 10 ms. Metallic ribbon samples can be quickly heated and cooled from temperatures up to 500 deg. C inside a furnace with controllable atmosphere and equipped with a beryllium window. A description of the setup is presented along with actual results showing time-resolved phase transitions and crystallization processes in AlYNi metallic alloys. These results demonstrate the power of this technique to investigate complex crystallization processes as well as the versatility of this time-resolved X-ray scattering spectrometer

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
521
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 188-193
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
11. US national conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation
Acronym
SRI99
Dates
13-15 Oct 1999
Place
Stanford, CA (United States)

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Notes
(c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.