Diffusion coefficients in Pd-Rh binary system

Renaud Hubert, Stephane Lucas, Christopher O'BRIEN, Afina LUPULESCU

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Abstract

Pd diffusion in Rh has a great interest in the 103Pd production for brachytherapy, a cancer treatment using radioactive implants. In order to study that diffusion, DC-magnetron sandwich layers of natural Pd and Rh were produced, annealed, and the Pd profiles were measured by Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). The interdiffusion profiles were then analysed using the InverseMethods MatLab© code developed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Four different methods were applied to our data: Boltzmann-Matano (BM), Sauer-Freise-den Broeder (SFdB), Error function series approximation (ERF), and Fourier series source approximation (Fourier). Pd/Rh and Rh/C interdiffusion coefficients are calculated for different temperatures and the results are shown.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 1st International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids
Publication statusPublished - 2005

Keywords

  • interdiffusion
  • rhodium
  • inverse methods
  • ToF-SIMS
  • Palladium

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