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Volume 114, Number 1, April 2016
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Article Number | 17006 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/114/17006 | |
Published online | 29 April 2016 |
On the origin of bulk glass forming ability in Cu-Hf, Zr alloys
1 Department of Physics, University of Osijek - Trg Ljudevita Gaja 6,31000 Osijek, Croatia
2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb - Bijenička cesta 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
3 Institute for Materials Research-UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria - C. P. 04510 Mexico, D. F., Mexico
(a) ramir.ristic@fizika.unios.hr
Received: 8 February 2016
Accepted: 16 April 2016
Understanding the formation of bulk metallic glasses (BMG) in metallic systems and finding a reliable criterion for selection of BMG compositions are among the most important issues in condensed-matter physics and material science. Using the results of magnetic susceptibility measurements performed on both amorphous and crystallized Cu-Hf alloys (30–70 at% Cu) we find a correlation between the difference in magnetic susceptibilities of corresponding glassy and crystalline alloys and the variation in the glass forming ability (GFA) in these alloys. Since the same correlation can be inferred from data for the properties associated with the electronic structure of Cu-Zr alloys, it seems quite general and may apply to other glassy alloys based on early and late transition metals. This correlation is plausible from the free-energy considerations and provides a simple way to select the compositions with high GFA.
PACS: 71.23.Cq – Amorphous semiconductors, metallic glasses, glasses / 64.70.pe – Metallic glasses
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