Acceleration of Diffusional Jumps of Interstitial Fe with Increasing Ge Concentration in Si1 − x Ge x Alloys Observed by Mössbauer Spectroscopy

Weyer, G. ; Gunnlaugsson, H. ; Bharuth-Ram, K. ; Dietrich, M. ; Mantovan, R. ; Naicker, V. ; Naidoo, D. ; Sielemann, R.

In: Hyperfine Interactions, 2004, vol. 158, no. 1-4, p. 417-421

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    Summary
    Radioactive 57Mn isotopes have been implanted into Si1 − x Ge x crystals (x ≤ 0.1) at elevated temperatures for Mössbauer studies of the diffusion of interstitial 57Fe daughter atoms. The atomic jump frequency is found to increase upon Ge alloying. This is attributed to a lowering of the activation energy, i.e. the saddle point energy at hexagonal interstitial sites with Ge neighbour atoms