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In this work, the thermal stability of Cu-In alloys with 45.0 and 41.2 at.% In nominal compositions was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy, wavelength dispersive spectroscopy, and in-situ synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction (S-PXRD) over a temperature range from 25 up to 400 °C. The studied samples are mainly composed of a Cu11In9 phase together with minor amounts of the B phase (based on the NiAs-Ni2In type structure) and, in one of the samples, with a minor amount of pure In. No evidence of the Cu10In7 (41.2 at.% In) phase was detected, not even in the sample with 41.2 at.% In nominal overall composition. The combined use of the S-PXRD and DSC techniques allowed us to identify two phase transitions involving the Cu11In9 phase, one of them corresponding to the \( \upeta^{\prime} \rightleftharpoons {\text{B}} + {\text{Cu}}_{11} {\text{In}}_{9} \) reaction at T = 290 °C and the other to the peritectic \( \upeta^{\prime} + {\text{L}} \rightleftharpoons {\text{Cu}}_{11} {\text{In}}_{9} \) reaction at T = 311 °C.
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This work was funded by FONCyT Project PICT 2006-1947, Comahue National University, CONICET, and LNLS (Brazil) under Research Proposal D10B-XPD-10810. The authors acknowledge the beamline staff at LNLS for technical assistance.
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Baqué, L., Torrado, D., Aurelio, G. et al. Phase Identification of Cu-In Alloys with 45 and 41.25 at.% In Compositions. J. Phase Equilib. Diffus. 35, 2–10 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11669-013-0265-7
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