Intensity expression for short-range-order diffuse scattering with ordering energies in a ternary alloy system

Abstract

An X-ray partial diffuse intensity equation has been explicitly expressed as a function of ordering energies between different atomic species by referring to the description of the interatomic correlation function of de Fontaine [J. Phys. Chem. Solids (1973), 34, 1285–1304]. The expression suggests the appearance of a negative partial intensity. As an interesting example of its application, the calculation of the partial intensity for the disordered Cu2NiZn ternary alloy by means of the derived equation in terms of the ordering energies obtained theoretically by de Rooy, van Royen, Bronsveld & de Hosson [Acta Metall. (1980), 28, 1339–1347] is shown to lead to a distribution of diffuse scattering very similar to that given by experimental observations [Hashimoto, Iwasaki, Ohshima, Harada, Sakata & Terauchi (1985). J. Phys. Soc. Jpn, 54, 3796–3807].