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Abstract
In this paper, we analyse chemical interdiffusion via Schottky vacancy-pairs in strongly ionic crystals for diffusion couples (AY–BY), where A and B take the same valence. We derive a sum-rule relating the phenomenological coefficients that is based on an earlier sum-rule derived by Moleko and Allnatt (Phil. Mag. A, 58 (Citation1988) 677) for diffusion in the multicomponent random alloy via the agency of isolated vacancies. With this sum-rule and other relationships derived by us, we show that the ratio of the intrinsic diffusivities can be expressed in exactly the same simple form as the case for diffusion via isolated vacancies. The functional form for the interdiffusion coefficient when expressed in terms of atom-vacancy exchange frequencies for diffusion is found to be essentially the same as that for isolated vacancies. The difference centres only on the relative differences of the local jump coordination of the vacancies in each case.
Acknowledgements
We thank the Australian Research Council (Large Grants and Discovery Project Grants Schemes) for its support of this research. I.V.B. thanks the Australian Research Council for the award of Queen Elizabeth II and Professorial Fellowships.