A MOSSBAUER STUDY OF EARLY PRECIPITATION IN CU-FE ALLOY

Mossbauer spectroscopy was used to study the early stages of precipita tion in Cu-0.6 at.% Fe alloy. A set of data for the concentration of i ron in solution was obtained for annealing times from 1 to 10(5) s at 400-degrees-C. The results were interpreted in terms of quenched monov acancies and divacancies. A proposed analytical expression describes t he annealing fairly well. The application of the Mossbauer spectroscop y in short-time-scale annealing experiments seems to promise new possi bilities for investigation of the diffusion properties.