High-entropy grain boundaries

Transition between Low and High Angle Grain Boundaries

Institut für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA Abstract The migration of planar, symmetric tilt grain boundaries with different tilt axes was investigated. The driving force for the grain boundary migration was due to an external mechanical stress field. Low as well as high angle grain boundaries can move under ...

Electrical Properties of Grain Boundaries

The electrical properties of grain boundaries are very different in insulators, semiconductors and metals. We present them briefly in the case of insulators and semiconductors and with more details in the case of metals.

Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Alumina

Layering transitions at grain boundaries

We review various simplified models that have been advanced to describe layering (complexion) transitions at grain boundaries in multicomponent solids. In particular, we first outline lattice-gas, off-lattice atomistic and thermodynamic models that have been employed to investigate phase-like behavior at segregated grain boundaries. The results of these investigations are summarized in the form...

A unified approach to motion of grain boundaries, relative tangential translation along grain boundaries, and grain rotation

We postulate that almost any motion of an interface between two crystals can produce a coupled tangential motion of the two crystals relative to each other which is proportional to the normal motion of the interface. Such translations can produce grain rotations; the special case of the rotations of shrinking included circular cylindrical grains which increase misorientation, as seen in the mol...