The effect of cooling rate on the metastable liquid phase separation(MLPS) in Cu-Fe binary and Cu-Fe-Co ternary alloys was investigated using an electromagnetic levitation technique. The cooling rate during phase separation was controlled by dropping ...
The effect of cooling rate on the metastable liquid phase separation(MLPS) in Cu-Fe binary and Cu-Fe-Co ternary alloys was investigated using an electromagnetic levitation technique. The cooling rate during phase separation was controlled by dropping the specimens to copper substrate which was in 15 ㎝ apart from levitation coil. The cooling rate in levitation state was 5-20 K/sec, and those of free falling and after splash were 130 K/sec and 2300 K/sec respectively. In the specimen solidified at medium cooling rate(about 130 K/sec), secondary phase separation was observed in both L1(Fe- or Fe, Co-rich phase) and L2(Cu-rich phase) phases that have been formed by primary phase separation. In this case the phase separation occured by nucleation and growth. Spinodal decomposition is considered as a dominent phase separation mechanism in L1 droplets solidified at fast cooling rate (about 2300 K/sec). There was no evidence of spinodal decomposition in L2 phase.