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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
Much work has been devoted to TEM studies of nanoscale precipitates consisting of non-soluble elements in Al, as the Al matrix acts as a unique crucible enabling the study of melting/ solidification and crystal phase transformations at a nanometer scale. Recently, this work has been extended to include the ternary system of Al-Pb-Cd. This system is of particular interest, as both Pb and Cd display a large liquid miscibility gap with Al, but together they form a eutectic system. Bimetallic inclusions consist of an fcc Pb and an hcp Cd segment, joined along an internal interface parallel to the {111}Al planes. In this work, the microstructure and composition of off-eutectic Pb-Cd inclusions are studied. Polycrystalline Al samples were implanted with 1 x 1020 ions/m2 (∼3 at.%) with a Cd:Pb ratio of either 8:2 or 2:8, at temperatures to form inclusions in the 10 nm size range.