Thermodynamic Calculation of Fe–N and Fe–Ga Melting Diagrams at Pressures from 0.1 MPa to 7 GPa
V. Z. Turkevych$^1$, Yu. Yu. Rumiantseva$^1$, I. О. Hnatenko$^1$, I. O. Hladkyi$^2$, and Yu. I. Sadova$^1$
$^1$V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials of the N.A.S. of Ukraine, 2 Avtozavodska Str., UA-04114 Kyiv, Ukraine
$^2$National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, 37 Prosp. Peremohy, UA-03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
Received 04.11.2021; final version — 17.11.2021 Download PDF
Abstract
This paper presents results of melting-diagrams’ calculations for the Fe–N and Fe–Ga systems at atmospheric pressure (0.1 MPa) and at high pressures (3, 5 and 7 GPa). Thermodynamic calculations are performed within the models of phenomenological thermodynamics. As shown, the increase of pressure results in destabilization of high-temperature b.c.c.-Fe modification in Fe–N system and stabilization of Fe4N equilibrium with the liquid phase. In Fe–Ga system, the intermetallic compounds Fe3Ga, Fe6Ga5, Fe3Ga4, and FeGa3 retain their stability up to pressure of 7 GPa. The stabilization of Fe4N equilibrium with the liquid phase at high pressures indicates that the Fe4N can be a competing phase in the gallium-nitride crystallization from the Fe–Ga–N system melt.
Keywords: Fe–N and Fe–Ga diagrams, high pressures, thermodynamic calculations, ThermoCalc.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/ufm.22.04.531
Citation: V. Z. Turkevych, Yu. Yu. Rumiantseva, I. О. Hnatenko, I. O. Hladkyi, and Yu. I. Sadova, Thermodynamic Calculation of Fe–N and Fe–Ga Melting Diagrams at Pressures from 0.1 MPa to 7 GPa, Progress in Physics of Metals, 22, No. 4: 531–538 (2021)