Studying of Nickel Alloys with 1 at.% of Ge, Zn, In, Zr and Pb by Positron Annihilation Methods

The measurements of cold rolled nickel alloys with 1 at.% of Ge, Zn, In, Zr, Pb and additionally Ti and Sb by positron lifetime and Doppler broadening techniques have been done. Monovacancies were a dominating type of defects in the alloys. The authors of the present paper connect the differences between the annihilation parameters of the investigated samples with the existence of the vacancy-impurity atom pairs. A direct proportionality between the vacancy lifetime and the product of vacancy-impurity binding energy and atomic radius of impurity atom has been found.