An. Diulin et al., EFFECT OF IMPURITY BARRIERS ON LOW-TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES IN PLASTICITY PARAMETERS OF BETA-SN, Low temperature physics (Woodbury, N.Y.), 24(6), 1998, pp. 452-459
Plastic deformation determined by the slip of (100)[010] screw disloca
tions in single crystals of beta-Sn solid solutions with different con
centrations of Cd, In, and Zn impurities is studied in the temperature
range 1.6-150 K. Low-temperature anomalies of the yield stress tau(0)
and activation volume gamma (kinks in the temperature dependence of t
au(0)(T) and peaks on the stress dependence of the activation volume (
gamma)(tau)) are observed. The parameters of anomalies are found to be
determined to a considerable extent by the concentration of impurity
atoms in the alloy and by the height of the barriers formed by impurit
y atoms for dislocations. The observed effects are compared with the p
redictions of the theory describing the influence of impurities on the
motion of dislocations through Peierls barriers of complex shape. The
results of analysis of experimental data are in agreement with the as
sumption concerning the two-hump shape of the lattice potential relief
in the (100)[010] slip system. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics
.