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1995 MRS Fall Meeting

November 27–December 1, 1995
Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting Chairs: Michael J. Aziz, Berend T. Jonker, Leslie J. Struble

Symposium E—Metastable Metal-Based Phases And Microstructures

Chairs

Giorgio Mazzone, ENEA
Robert S. Averback, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert D. Shull, NIST
Ruediger Bormann, GKSS Forschungszentrum
Ronald F. Ziolo, Xerox Corporation

*Invited Paper

SESSION E1: SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING
Chairs: Ruediger Bormann and Thomas Klassen
Monday Morning, November 27
Suffolk (M)
8:30 A.M. *E1.1
KINETIC ROUGHENING OF INTERFACES AND MIXING IN ALLOYS UNDER SHEAR OR IRRADIATION, P. Bellon, C.E.A., DECM-SRMP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; and P. Partyka, University of Illinois, Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL.

9:00 A.M. E1.2
FULL-DENSITY PROCESSING AND MICROHARDNESS ENHANCEMENT OF NANOPHASE Fe-29Al-2Cr INTER-METALLIC AND IN SITU FORMED Fe-Cu NANOCOMPOSITES FROM MECHANICALLY ALLOYED POWDERS, L. He and E. Ma, Louisiana State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA.

9:15 A.M. E1.3
GRAIN GROWTH IMPEDIMENT OF FE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES DURING HEAT TREATMENT AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES, Benlih Huang, Robert J. Perez and Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Irvine, CA.

9:30 A.M. E1.4
LOW DENSITY TITANIUM ALLOYS BY NON-EQUILIBRIUM PROCESSING, David Wilkes, Paul Goodwin and Malcolm Ward-Close, Defence Research Agency, Structural Materials Centre, Farnborough, United Kingdom.

9:45 A.M. E1.5
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL SUPERHARD NANOCRYSTALLINE/AMORPHOUS COMPOSITE MATERIALS, S. Veprek and M. Haussmann, Technical University Munich, Institute for Chemistry of Information Recording, Garching/Munich, Germany.

10:00 A.M. E1.6
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED IRON AND M50 STEEL, K.E. Gonsalves, S.P. Rangarajan, A-Garcia-Ruiz, University of Connecticut, Institute of Materials Science, Storrs, CT; and C.C. Law, Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT.

10:15 A.M. BREAK

10:30 A.M. E1.7
SYNTHESIS OF GRANULAR SYSTEMS BY CLUSTER BEAM DEPOSITION, Margolita Pollack, Ulrich Herr and R.S. Averback, University of Illinois, Department of Materials Science, Urbana, IL.

10:45 A.M. E1.8
CHARACTERIZATION OF A PULSED ARC CLUSTER ION SOURCE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF METAL CLUSTERS IN MOLECULAR BEAMS, P. Piseri, E. Barborini and P. Milani, Università di Milano, INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica, Milano, Italy.

11:00 A.M. E1.9
AEROSOL SYNTHESIS OF METAL AND METAL OXIDE NITRIDE AND CARBIDE NANOPARTICLES USING AN ARC EVAPORATION SOURCE, W. Mahoney, M.D. Kempe and R.P. Andres, Purdue University, School of Chemical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN.

11:15 A.M. E1.10
IN-SITU STUDIES OF A NOVEL SODIUM FLAME PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS FINE PARTICLES, K.L. Steffens, M.R. Zachariah, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; D.P. DuFaux and R.L. Axelbaum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

11:30 A.M. E1.11
PREPARATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED NiO/Ni COMPOSITE BY RAPID SINTERING, Norimitsu Murayama and Yasuyoshi Torii, National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan.
11:45 A.M. E1.12
STRUCTURAL STABILITY OF CdSe NANOCRYSTALLITE DISPERSIONS, H. Mattoussi, University of Florida, Department of Physics, Gainesville, FL; C.B. Murray, M.G. Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA; and R. Ober, Collège de France, Department of Physics, Paris, France.

SESSION E2: THERMODYNAMICS
Chairs: Ulrich Herr and E. Ma
Monday Afternoon, November 27
Suffolk (M)

1:30 P.M. *E2.1
MEASUREMENTS OF INTERFACE STRESS AND INTERFACIAL ENTHALPY, Frans Spaepen, Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA.

2:00 P.M. *E2.2
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF AN IDEALIZED FULLY DENSE NANOCRYSTALLINE MODEL MATERIAL, D. Wolf, S.R. Phillpot, Sandia National Laboratories, Materials Science Division, Argonne, IL; and H. Gleiter, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany.

2:30 P.M. *E2.3
INTERDIFFUSION AND STRESS DURING SOLID-STATE AMORPHIZATION IN Ni-Hf THIN FILMS, Michael Atzmon, University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI; and William S. Boyer, University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI.

3:00 P.M. BREAK

3:15 P.M. E2.4
DETERMINATION OF THE CHEMICAL POTENTIALS OF HIGHLY SUPERSATURATED Cu-Co ALLOYS, F. Gärtner, R. Busch, P. Haasen, Institut für Metallphysik, Göttingen, Germany; and R. Bormann, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Materials Research, Max-Planck-Strasse, Geesthacht, Germany.

3:30 P.M. *E2.5
SOLIDIFICATION OF INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS, H. Assadi and A.L. Greer, University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, MA.

4:00 P.M. E2.6
WHICH SYSTEMS CAN UNDERGO INVERSE MELTING?, W. Sinkler, C. Michaelsen and R. Bormann, Institute für Werkstofforschung, GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthact, Germany.

4:15 P.M. E2.7
THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF THE SUPERCOOLED LIQUID IN Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be BULK METALLIC GLASS FORMERS, Ralf Busch, E. Bakke and W. L. Johnson, California Institute of Technology, Keck Laboratory of Engineering Materials, Pasadena, CA.

4:30 P.M. E2.8
INFLUENCE OF PRESSURE ON THE STABILITY OF METASTABLE TiSi(B2) PHASE, G. Davidov, D. Fuks, Ben Gurion University, Materials Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel; and S. Dorfman, Technion Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Haifa, Israel.

4:45 P.M. E2.9
A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF THE TERMINAL Zr(Ni) SOLID SOLUTIONS, F. Cleri, G. Mazzone and V. Rosato, ENEA CRE Casaccia, Roma, Italy.

SESSION E3: POSTER SESSION
METASTABLE PHASES AND MICROSTRUCTURE
Chairs: Robert Shull and Giorgio Mazzone
Monday Evening, November 27
8:00 P.M.
America Ballroom (W)

E3.1 EXPLOSIVE DECAY OF PARTIALLY CRYSTALLIZED AMORPHOUS FILMS, Valerij A. Shklovskij, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, National Science Center, Kharkov, Ukraine.

E3.2 PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMORPHOUS METALS OF NEW CLASS, R.T. Malkhasian, and E.V. Agababian, Scientific Production Enterprise, Ministry of Industry, Yrevan, Armenia.

E3.3 SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE BaTiO3 CERAMICS, Shaoping Li, Jeff Eastman and Loren J. Thompson, Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division, Argonne, IL.



E3.4 MICROSTRUCTURAL STUDY OF ZRO2 PREPARED FROM GASEOUS ZrCl4, A.E. Bohé and M. Pasquevich, Centro Atomico Bariloche, Department of Applied Research, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.

E3.5 RAMAN EFFECT IN ZINC FINE PARTICLES, Jianfeng Xu, Guangxu Cheng, Tiejun Zhou and Youwei Du, Nanjing University, Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing, China.

E3.6 SOLITON MODEL OF ISLAND MIGRATION IN THIN FILMS, S.A. Kukushkin and A.V. Osipov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, St. Petersburg, Russia.

E3.7 STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF Fe-Cr ALLOY THIN FILMS PREPARED BY ION-ASSISTED SPUTTER DEPOSITION, M.C. Simmonds, M.P. Ryan, R.C. Newman, UMIST, Corrosion and Protection Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom; and J.S. Colligon, University of Salford, DMM Institute, Salford, United Kingdom.

E3.8 STRUCTURE, STABILITY, AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS MoSi2Nx, H. Kung, T.R. Jervis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; J.-P. Hirvonen, Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland; T.E. Mitchell and M. Nastasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.

E3.9 PHASE EVOLUTION DURING AMORPHOUS TO CRYSTALLINE TRANSFORMATION IN SPUTTER DEPOSITED Ti-Al THIN FILMS: EFFECT OF Mn AND Nb ADDITIONS, R. Banerjee, S. Swaminathan, R. Wheeler and H.L. Fraser, Ohio state University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Columbus, OH.

E3.10 LOW FREQUENCIES PHONON SPECTRA ON GRANULAR Co-Ag FILMS, Guang-Xy Cheng, Nanjing University, Center of Materials Analysis and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Jiangsu, China; Hai San, Shi-Yuan Zhang and You-Wei Du, Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Jiangsu, China.

E3.11 NANOSTRUCTURE OF GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE GRANULAR ALLOYS CoxAg1-x AND NixAg1-x UPON ANNEALING, Jean-René Regnard, Christine Revenant-Brizard, Bernard Dieny, CENG, Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, Grenoble, France; and Jean Mimault, University of Poitiers, France.

E3.12 PREPARATION OF Fe/SiO2 FILMS BY THE SPUTTERING AND THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, Tomoko Akai, Mitsuharu Tabuchi, Ryoji Funahashi and Hiroshi Yamanaka, Osaka National Research Institute, AIST, Osaka, Japan.

E3.13 SHORT-PERIOD MULTILAYERS WITH ENHANCED THERMAL AND RADIATION STABILITY, A. Fedorenko, V. Kondratenko, I. Kopilets, E. Bugaev, E. Zubarev, Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, Metal and Semiconductor Physics, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

E3.14 MODELING OF THE MECHANICAL ALLOYING PROCESS IN BINARY ALLOY SYSTEMS, Ulrich Herr, Thomas Klassen and R.S. Averback, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL.

E3.15 MECHANISMS OF PHASE FORMATION DURING MILLING IN TERNARY IMMISCIBLE SYSTEMS, Thomas Klassen, Ulrich Herr and R.S. Averback, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL.

E3.16 ORDER-DISORDER TRANSITION UNDER SHEARING APPLICATION TO BALL MILLING, P. Pochet, P. Bellon, L. Chaffron and G. Martin, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, DECM-SRMP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

E3.17 MECHANICAL CRYSTALLIZATION OF METGLAS Fe78B13S19 BY CRYOGENIC HIGH ENERGY BALL MILLING, Benlih Huang, Robert J. Perez, Paul J. Crawford, Maggy L. Lau, University of California, Department of Chemical and Materials Science. Irvine, CA; Steven R. Nutt, University of Southern California, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA; and Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Department of Chemical and Materials Science, Irvine, CA.

E3.18 EFFECT OF IN-SITU FORMATION OF NANOSCALE -Al2O3 AND AIN ON THERMAL STABILITY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE FE BY CRYOMILLING, Robert J. Perez, Benlih Huang and Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Irvine, CA.

E3.19 SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BULK NANOCRYSTALLINE M50 STEEL BY CRYOMILLING, Maggy L. Lau, Benlih Huang, Robert J. Perez and Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Irvine, CA.

E3.20 DENSIFICATION OF NANOPHASE FeAl INTERMETALLICS BY SINTERFORGING, Q.Tan, T. Klassen and R.S. Averback, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL.


E3.21 DECOMPOSITION OF UNSTABLE SUPERSATURATED Cu90Co10 SOLID SOLUTIONS, Ralf Busch, F. Gärtner, C. Borchers, Universität Göttingen, Institut für Metallphysik, Göttingen, Germany; and R. Bormann, GKSS Research Center, Institute for Materials Research, Geesthacht, Germany.

E3.22 THE REDUCTION OF NICKEL-MOLYBEDENUM ALLOYS, M. Savyak and I. Uvarova, IPM, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine.

E3.23 SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE Mn OXIDE POWDERS USING CO2 LASER PYROLYSIS, Xiang-Xin Bi, Chinghwa Kiang, M.S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge, MA; and W. Lee, R. Ochoa and P.C. Eklund, University of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research, Lexington, KY.

E3.24 THE OSTWALD RIPENING IN MULTICOMPONENT SYSTEMS UNDER NON-ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS, S.A. Kukushkin and V.V. Slyozov, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, St. Petersburg, Russia.

E3.25 CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF MODEL NANOPHASES, Gregorio D'Agostino, ENEA, Innovation Department, Rome, Italy; and Helena Van Swygenhoven, PSI, Department F3A, Viligen, Switzerland.

E3.26 VISCOSITY OF THE Zr46.25Ti8.25Cu7.5Ni10.0Be27.5 BULK METALLIC GLASS FORMING ALLOY IN THE SUPERCOOLED LIQUID, Eric Bakke, R. Busch and W.L. Johnson, California Institute of Technology, Keck Laboratory of Engineering Materials, Pasadena, CA.

E3.27 STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS IN AMORPHOUS MAGNETIC ALLOYS UNDER THERMOTREATMENT, Leonid V. Poperenko, Mykola V. Vinnichenko, Vasyl' V. Vovchak, Iryna V. Yurgelevych, National Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University, Department of Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine; and Sergei G. Zaichenko, Institute of Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Moscow, Russia.

E3.28 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PARTIALLY CRYSTALLIZED Fe80B20 AMORPHOUS ALLOYS, D. Fiorani, ICMAT-CNR, Roma, Italy; F. Malizia, F. Ronconi, INFM, Universita' di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara, Italy; and M. Vittori, ENEA, C.R.E. Casaccia, Roma Italy.

E3.29 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY INVESTIGATION OF N+ IMPLANTED Al-ALLOY, A.M. Serventi, M. Vittori Antisari, ENEA-C.R. Casaccia, Settore Nuovi Materiali, Roma, Italy; L. Guzman and A. Miotello, University of Trento, Department of Physics, Povo, Italy.

E3.30 ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF Pb5Ge3O11-BASED FERROELECTRIC GLASS-CERAMICS, Iván A. Cornejo and Michael J. Haun, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics, Golden, CO.

E3.31 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF METALLIC AND SEMICONDUCTING NANOPARTICLES IN DIELECTRIC MATRICES, A.Stella, University of Pavia, Physics Department, Pavia, Italy; P. Cheyssac, R. Kofman, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Physics Department, Nice, France; and A. Migliori, LAMEL Institute of National Research Council, Bologna, Italy.

SESSION E4: PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
Chairs: Robert Averback and Jeffrey Eastman
Tuesday Morning, November 28
Suffolk (M)

9:00 A.M. *E4.1
THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF METASTABLE PHASE FORMATION AT UNSTABLE INTERFACES, C.V. Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA.

9:30 A.M. *E4.2
DEFECT-INDUCED AMORPHIZATION AND MELTING, P.R. Okamoto and N.Q. Lam, Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division, Argonne, IL.

10:00 A.M. BREAK

10:15 A.M. E4.3
FORMATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS FROM CRYSTALLIZATION OF BULK AMORPHOUS MATERIALS, Z.J. Pu, J.L. Ma, Y. Gao, K.H. Wu, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

10:30 A.M. *E4.4
APFIM STUDIES OF NANOCRYSTALLIZATIONS OF AMORPHOUS ALLOYS, K. Hono, National Research Institute for Metals, Materials Design Division; Y. Zhang, A. Inoue and T. Sakurai, Tohoku University, Institute for Materials Research, Sendai, Japan.


11:00 A.M. *E4.5
HIGHLY REFINED MICROSTRUCTURES IN DEVITRIFIED ALLOYS, Livio Battezzati, Universita' di Torino, Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Chimica Fisica e Chimica dei Materiali, Torino, Italy.

11:30 A.M. E4.6
CRYSTALLIZATION OF SPUTTER DEPOSITED TI-AL AMORPHOUS ALLOY, M. Ohnuma, T. Abe and H. Onodera, National Research Institute for Metals, Materials Design Division, Ibaraki, Japan.

11:45 A.M. E4.7
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN PARTIALLY AMORPHOUS Co-Ti ALLOYS, J.G. Cabañas-Moreno, H.A. Calderón, R. Martínez-Sánchez, H. Balmori, ESIQIE-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico; and M. Umemoto, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan.

SESSION E5: CHARACTERIZATION
Chairs: Giorgio Mazzone and Livio Battezzati
Tuesday Afternoon, November 28
Suffolk (M)

1:30 P.M. E5.1
MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NANOCRYSTALLINE NiO DURING ANNEALING, J.A. Eastman, KL.L. Merkle, L.J. Thompson, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; D.S. Stone and M.F. Tambwe, University of Wisconsin, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Madison, WI.

1:45 P.M. E5.2
POINT DEFECTS IN MECHANICALLY-MILLED FeAl STUDIED BY MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY, Luke S.-J. Peng and Gary S. Collins, Washington State University, Department of Physics, Pullman, WA.

2:00 P.M. E5.3
MICROSTRUCTURE OF EXTREMELY FINE LAMELLAE IN A TIAL BASE ALLOY STUDIED BY HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, E. Abe, T. Kumagai and M. Nakamura, National Research Institute for Metals, Ibaraki, Japan.

2:15 P.M. E5.4
STRUCTURAL STUDY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE Cu, Pd, AND Ni COMPACTS WITH DIFFERENT PROCESSING HISTORIES, B.R. Elliott, P.G. Sanders, J. Eastman, D.L. Johnson and J.R. Weertman, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science, Evanston, IL.

2:30 P.M. E5.5
CHARACTERIZATION OF METASTABLE ALLOYS OF Ti AND Mg, J.W. Steeds, K.E. Bagnall, G.H. Lu, P.G. Partridge, University of Bristol, Department of Physics, Bristol, United Kingdom; and C.M. Ward-Close and R.W. Gardiner, Defence Research Agency, Farnborough, United Kingdom.

2:45 P.M. E5.6
ANOMALOUS LATTICE PARAMETERS IN IRON-COPPER MULTILAYERS, S.J. Lloyd, R.E. Somekh and W.M. Stobbs, University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

3:00 P.M. BREAK

3:30 P.M. E5.7
STM STUDIES OF ULTRATHIN METAL FILMS DEPOSITED ONTO 77K GRAPHITE SURFACES, K.L. Ekinci and J.M. Valles Jr., Brown University, Department of Physics, Providence, RI.

3:45 P.M. E5.8
NANOSIZED METALLIC Sn PRECIPITATES FORMED UPON ION IMPLANTATION, Hugo Pattyn, Thaddsee Barancira, Karen Milants and Raf Moons, I.K.S., Physics Department, Leuven, Belgium.

4:00 P.M. E5.9
NANOSTRUCTURED SILVER PARTICLES EMBEDDED IN A SILICA MATRIX, M.H. Lee, ETRI, Photonic Switching Section, Taejon, Korea; P.J. Dobson and B. Cantor, University of Oxford, Department of Materials and Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom.

4:15 P.M. E5.10
CHARACTERIZATION OF PARTICLES SYNTHESIZED BY AEROSOL PROCESSES FOR VARIOUS Pb:Si MOLAR FEED RATIOS, T.M. Owens, J. Maslar, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Process Measurements Division, Gaithersburg, MD; P. Biswas, University of Cincinnati, Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cincinnati, OH; and M.R. Zachariah, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Process Measurements Division, Gaithersburg, MD.

4:30 P.M. E5.11
STRUCTURAL, MORPHOLOGICAL AND MAGNETIC STUDY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE COLBALT-COPPER POWDERS SYNTHESIZED BY THE POLYOL PROCESS, G.M. Chow, L.K. Kurihara, Naval Research Laboratory, Laboratory for Molecular Interfacial Interactions, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Washington, DC; K.M. Kemner, Naval Research Laboratory, Condensed Matter and Radiation Division, Washington, DC; P.E. Schoen, Naval Research Laboratory, Laboratory for Molecular Interfacial Interactions, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Washington, DC; W.T. Elam, Naval Research Laboratory, Condensed Matter and Radiation Division, Washington, DC; A. Ervin, Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Washington, DC; S. Keller, Y.D. Zhang, J. Budnick, University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, Storrs, CT; and T. Ambrose, John Hopkins University, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD.

4:45 P.M. E5.12
NANO-SCALE PARTICLES OF Ba - FERRITE METASTABLE PHASE SYNTHESIZED BY MODIFIED AEROSOL PYROLYSIS METHOD, V. Pankov, D. Dubanevich and Malachevich, Institute of Solid State Physics, Minsk, Belarus.

SESSION E6: PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS I
Chairs: Robert Shull and Yet-Ming Chiang
Wednesday Morning, November 29
Suffolk (M)

8:30 A.M. *E6.1
STRUCTURE - PROPERTIES - RELATIONSHIPS IN NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS, R. Birringer, W. Krause, C. Krill, F. Merzoug and A. Tschöpe, Universität des Saalrandes, Fachbereich Physik, Saarbrücken, Germany.

9:00 A.M. E6.2
DIFFUSION ENHANCEMENT IN GLASSY METALS UNDER NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS, M. Vittori Antisari, ENEA-C.R. Casaccia, Settore Nuovi Materiali, Roma, Italy.

9:15 A.M. *E6.3
EVOLUTION OF MICROSTRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES IN GRANULAR AGCO FILMS, K. Samwer, M. Moske, M. Weiss and T. Lorenz, Universität, Institut f. Physik, Augsburg, Germany.

9:45 A.M. E6.4
SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF NANO-SIZED GADOLINIUM GARNETS FOR MAGNETIC APPLICATIONS, J.G. Fagan, J. Untener, K.D. Voung, X.W. Wang, Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY; M. Naughton, D. Petrov, University of Buffalo, Amherst, NY; and M. DeMarco, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY.

10:00 A.M. BREAK

10:15 A.M. E6.5
OBTAINING AND INVESTIGATION OF CERTAIN PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS MONOCOMPONENT IRON, R.T. Malkhasian, G.A. Khachikian, S.A. Petrosian and V.Y. Adamian, Scientific Production Enterprise, Ministry of Industry, Yrevan, Armenia.

10:30 A.M. E6.6
MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND BAND STRUCTURES OF ULTRATHIN FENI AND CONI ALLOY FILMS ON Cu(100) SUBSTRATE, S.Z. Wu, F.O. Schumann, G.J. Mankey and R.F. Willis, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, University Park, PA.

10:45 A.M. *E6.7
METASTABILITY OF SYSTEMS: FROM DEFECTS AND NANOSTRUCTURES TO APPLICATIONS, John C. Parker, Nanophase Technologies Corporation, Ridge, IL.

11:15 A.M. E6.8
FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS FOR HIGH DENSITY MEMORIES, L.A. Wills, R. Hiskes, S.A. DiCarolis, Jun Amano, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA; C.M. Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, ARgonne, IL; T. Hidaka, T. Maruyama and M. Saitoh, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan.

11:30 A.M. E6.9
ELECTRICAL BEHAVIOR OF Cu/Nb THIN-FILM MULTILAYERS, A.J. Griffin Jr., M.F. Hundley, H.H. Kung, W.K. Scarborough, K.C. Walter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; J.D. Embury, J.T. Wood, McMaster University, Department of Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos, NM; and M. Nastasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.

11:45 A.M. E6.10
ON THE EINSTEIN RELATION IN NANOSTRUCTURED TERNARY AND QUATERNARY MATERIALS IN THE PRESENCE OF A PARRALEL MAGNETIC FIELD, Kamakhya P. Ghatak, Calcutta University, Department of Electronic Science, Calcutta, India; B. Nag, Calcutta University, Department of Applied Physics, Calcutta, India; and S.N. Biswas, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

SESSION E7: PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS II
Chairs: Helena van Swygenhoven and Ronald Ziolo
Wednesday Afternoon, November 29
Suffolk (M)

1:30 P.M. *E7.1
TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS, R. Schulz, Hydro-Quebec Research Institute, Varennes, Canada.

2:00 P.M. E7.2
Ti-Zr-Ni QUASICRYSTALS: STRUCTURE AND HYDROGEN STORAGE, K. F. Kelton, P.C. Gibbons, R.M. Stroud and A.M. Viano, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

2:15 P.M. E7.3
ENHANCES NONSTOICHIOMETRY AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY IN DENSE NANOCRYSTALLINE CeO2-x, Y.-M. Chiang, E. B. Lavik, I. Kosacki and H.L. Tuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA.

2:30 P.M. *E7.4
STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS OF METASTABLE AND NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS, C. Suryanarayana and F.H. Froes, University of Idaho, Institute for Materials and Advanced Processes, Moscow, ID.

3:00 P.M. BREAK

3:30 P.M. E7.5
CORRELATION OF PHASE RELATIONSHIPS AND RESIDUAL STRESS IN Mo, Ta AND W SPUTTERED FILMS, L.J. Parfitt, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI; Z.U. Rek, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford, CA; S.M. Yalisove and J.C. Bilello, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI.

3:45 P.M. E7.6
MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL-OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES, C.J. Youngdahl, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL Argonne National Laboratory, Materials and Science Division, Argonne, IL; J.R. Weertman, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL; and J.A. Eastman, Argonne National Laboratory, Materials and Science Division, Argonne, IL.

4:00 P.M. E7.7
THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION ON NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIUM-ALUMINUM, Lisa S. Kim, Thomas Klassen, Carl J. Altstetter and Robert S. Averback, University of Illinois, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Urbana, IL.

4:15 P.M. E7.8
HARDNESS OF THIN FILMS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE SILVER AND NICKEL COMPOSITES STUDIED BY NANOINDENTATION AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Boqin Qui, Yang Tse Cheng, General Motors R&D Center, Warren, MI; and James P. Blanchard, University of Wisconsin, Nuclear Engineering, Madison, WI.

4:30 P.M. E7.9
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOPHASE MATERIALS MEASURED BY INSTRUMENTAL INDENTATION, Helena Van Swygenhoven, J. Löffler and W. Wagner, Paul Scherrer Institute, Department F3A, Viligen, Switzerland.

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