“…The experimentally determined equilibrium composition of the γ'-precipitate phase of 75.24 Ni-16.48 Al-3.20 Cr-5.03 Ta at.% suggests that Al, Ta and Cr occupy the Al sites of the L1 2 -ordered Ni 3 Al-type γ'-precipitate phase of the Ni-Al-Cr-Ta alloy at 1073 K. Previous APT, atom probe field-ion microscope (APFIM) [30,32,33], x-ray analysis [34,35], and diffusion couple technique [31] experiments, as well as results of Monte Carlo simulations [36] and calculations employing first-principles [37][38][39][40], the cluster variation method [41][42][43][44], and other techniques [45,46], have shown that Ta occupies the Al sites in the ordered Ni 3 Al structure. These results contradict experimental results from ion channeling and nuclear reaction studies [47] and results based on short-range ordering parameters determined from pseudopotential approximations [48], which conclude that Ta occupies the Ni sites in the Ni 3 Al structure. Chromium has been found to occupy both the Ni or Al sites, depending on the composition of the alloy studied [34,36,37,39,43,48,49].…”