Abstract
The growth and decay kinetics of macroscopic hydrogen density modes in single crystals of niobium excited by an applied electric field was measured. The samples were prepared in-situ as to prevent incoherent precipitations. At a low hydrogen concentration (c=0.04 H/Nb) the diffusion coefficient and the effective charge agree well with results from experiments using polycrystalline samples. At a high hydrogen concentration (c=0.28 H/Nb) the electrotransport experiments could be extended into the unstable region of the incoherent phase diagram. The spinodal temperature obtained from the concentration amplitude (350±12 K) is significantly lower than the incoherent spinodal temperature. Important difficulties in evaluating electrotransport experiments at high hydrogen concentrations are discussed.
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