Ternary compounds and isothermal section in Lu–Fe–Ga ternary system at 773 K

Abstract

The isothermal section of the Lu–Fe–Ga ternary system at 773 K was investigated and constructed based on X-ray powder diffraction analysis. Thirteen binary compounds, Lu₂Fe₁₇, Lu₆Fe₂₃, LuFe₂, LuGa₃, LuGa₂, Lu₃Ga₅, LuGa, Lu₃Ga₂, Lu₅Ga₃, Fe₃Ga, Fe₆Ga₅, Fe₃Ga₄, FeGa₃, nine ternary solid solutions, T₁-LuFe_2–1.43Ga_0–0.57, T₂-LuFe_1.34–0.92Ga_0.68–1.08, T₃-LuFe_0.52–0.26Ga_1.48–1.74, T₅-LuFe_2.04–1.72Ga_0.96–1.28, T₆-Lu₆Fe_23–21.4Ga_0–1.6, T₇-Lu₂Fe_17–14.5Ga_0–3.5, T₈-Lu₂Fe_12.9–8.1Ga_4.1–8.9, T₉-LuFe_6.8–5.5Ga_5.2–6.5, T₁₀-LuFe_5.2–4.5Ga_6.8–7.5, and two ternary compounds, T₄-LuFe_2.35Ga_0.65 and T₁₁-Lu₂FeGa₈ have been confirmed. The structures of the five new ternary compounds or solid solution T₂, T₃, T₄, T₅ and T₈ are determined by Rietveld refinement method.

Keywords:

• ternary alloy system
• phase diagram
• crystallography
• X-ray diffraction

Acknowledgements

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50871070, 51171117, and 51101103) and Shenzhen Science and Technology Research (Grant No. JC200903120081A).