Pure Appl. Chem., 1999, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 1307-1325
doi:10.1351/pac199971071307
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY DIVISION
COMMISSION ON HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS AND SOLID STATE
Definitions of Terms for Diffusion in the Solid State
M. Kizilyalli, J. Corish and R. Metselaar
Abstract:
Synopsis: This document provides definitions of terms and processes which are used in describing the migration of host and foreign species through solid materials. Both the phenomenological theory of diffusion and the detailed atomistic mechanisms by which atom transport occurs are treated. Also included are the various types of gradients such as electrical, chemical, thermal and mechanical, which provide the driving forces for diffusion.