Response to comments on “A numerical method to determine interdiffusion coefficients of Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn intermetallic compounds”

Li, Jianfeng; Agyakwa, Pearl A.; Johnson, C. Mark

Abstract

Comments have recently been made by Yuan et al. [1] to deny one statement in our paper [2], Eq. (21) in Wagner's paper [3] can be used to accurately calculate the integrated interdiffusion coefficient for an incremental diffusion couple only under the assumption of constant Molar volume for all phases. We respond here to explain how they misunderstood our mathematical deduction, made a mistake in deriving a couple of equations, falsely cited our work and employed unjustifiable assumption. As a result, we believe that their comments are invalid to deny our statement.

Citation

Li, J., Agyakwa, P. A., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Response to comments on “A numerical method to determine interdiffusion coefficients of Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn intermetallic compounds”. Intermetallics, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2015.10.016

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 22, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 31, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 19, 2016
• Journal: Intermetallics
• Print ISSN: 0966-9795
• Electronic ISSN: 0966-9795
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 69
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2015.10.016
• Keywords: Intermetallics; miscellaneous; diffusion; phase interfaces
• Public URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/33385
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2015.10.016
• Copyright Statement: Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0