Crystallographic textures in a CoCrPtTa/Cr/NiAl multilayer magnetic recording media were studied by electron diffraction. It was found that texture quality evolves through the thickness of the films. A large improvement of texture quality was discovered at the interface of the Cr and NiAl layers. Surprisingly, there remains a portion of randomly oriented grains in the CoCrPtTa layer, in additio...

Low-temperature STM measurements combined with DFT calculations are employed to study the adsorption of gold on alumina/NiAl(110). The binding of Au monomers involves breaking of an oxide Al-O bond below the adatom and stabilizing the hence under-coordinated O ion by forming a new bond to an Al atom in the NiAl. The adsorption implies negative charging of the adatom. The linear arrangement of f...

A description of the important physical metallurgy aspects of Ni3Al and NiAl encompassing structure, crystallographic defects, slip systems and phase stability has been presented in this article. The microstructures generated in the two alloys by conventional as well as novel processing techniques have been discussed. The effect of alloying additions on the microstructure has been enumerated. B...

Low-temperature STM measurements combined with density functional theory calculations are employed to study the adsorption of gold on alumina/NiAl(110). The binding of Au monomers involves breaking of an oxide Al-O bond below the adatom and stabilizing the hence undercoordinated O ion by forming a new bond to an Al atom in the NiAl. The adsorption implies negative charging of the adatom. The li...

Thermal spray coatings are widely used in many applications, and the adhesion effect at coating/substrate interface plays an important role during service life. The thermal spraying coating substrate is primarily combined by a mechanical seizure effect. In this work, strategy to generate interfacial metallurgical bonding proposed. Plasma with wire feeding was adopted increase size of sprayed pa...

Article history: NiAl+SiO2 thin films were Received 28 May 2007 Received in revised form 9 June 2008 Accepted 24 July 2008 Available online 29 July 2008