Ag – Cu (Silver – Copper)

Tim Van Rompaey and Peter Rogl

Literature Data

The best version of the Ag-Cu phase diagram available at present refers to the critical assessment by [1993Sub] reprinted in [1994Sub]. It is shown in Fig. 1. Since the assessment of [1993Sub, 1994Sub], in which literature retrieval stopped in 1989, a series of papers appeared essentially dealing with high pressure equilibria [1991Fuj], with metastable rapidly quenched alloys [1998Fre], with mechanical alloying [1997Coh], and with the thermodynamics of the Ag-Cu system [1992Bie, 1993Okt, 1993Shu, 1995Shu, 1996Jac, 1997Lim, 1997Ran, 1998Xie, 1999Fit], including ab initio calculations [1991San, 1993Bad], cluster variation techniques [1991Zhe] and embedded atom calculations [1996Ast]. Surface segregation near the temperature of bulk phase separation and incomplete wetting was observed by [1991Tre]. Recent experimental wor...