Structural and Microstructural Characterization of CoCrFeNiPd High Entropy Alloys

According to literature, a High Entropy Alloy (HEA) has close to equimolar composition and forms mostly fcc and/or bcc phases as well as solid solutions, i.e. the elements take random occupations on available lattice sites. In this paper we report studies on HEAs of the CoCrFeNiPd system. All alloys have been found to, contrary to what has been reported earlier in literature, consist of four different phases, three of them of fcc type. The relative amounts of the different phases depend on Pd concentration. The different phases seem to be fully interconnected.