{"title":"Optical reflectivity of glassy PdUSi alloys","authors":"R. Lapka, G. Leemann, H.-J. Güntherodt","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90347-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90347-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Optical reflectivity measurements of several PdUSi alloys are presented and their dependence on the uranium concentration in the range between 0 and 60 at. % is studied. The effects of the U 5f band, together with the change from the 5f<sup>2</sup> to the 5f<sup>3</sup> electron configuration (starting between 6.6 and 20 at. % U), and of the changing valence bandwidth on adding uranium are discussed. In addition, the glassy and icosahedral phases of Pd<sub>60</sub>U<sub>20</sub>Si<sub>20</sub> are compared. For the icosahedral phase, a more prominent contribution of the U 5f states to the valence band as well as the onset of crystalline effects are observed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90347-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79294038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Greig, B.L. Gallagher, M.A. Howson, D.S.-L. Law, D. Norman, F.M. Quinn
{"title":"Photoemission studies on metallic glasses using synchrotron radiation","authors":"D. Greig, B.L. Gallagher, M.A. Howson, D.S.-L. Law, D. Norman, F.M. Quinn","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90336-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90336-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We report on the use of UV synchrotron radiation in the energy range 40–120 eV to probe the electron states of CuZr, FeZr, CoZr and CuHf amorphous alloys. The great advantage of tunable radiation over fixed frequency sources is that it allows identification of the electron states from a knowledge of the energy dependences of their scattering cross-sections. This variation is particularly pronounced in the case of the d states of zirconium which are essentially removed from the observed photoelectron spectra as the photon energy is increased from 40 eV to about 100 eV. The results confirm, for example, that for CuZr alloys it is the d states from zirconium that lie at the Fermi level.</p><p>By combining these results with those obtained from a technique involving constant initial states the scattering cross-sections for the Zr 4d and Cu 3d states were investigated. This will allow the experimental photoemission data to be corrected to give a more representative picture of the electronic band structure of these alloys, and has laid the foundation for extending the method to other newer alloy systems where the electron states have still not been identified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90336-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82698467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atomic structure of quasicrystals","authors":"T. Egami, S.J. Poon","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90350-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90350-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Progress in the determination of the atomic structure of quasicrystalline solids via pair distribution function analysis obtained by X-ray and neutron diffraction is reviewed. Common features of the local structure in these solids are described, followed by the discussion on the mechanism of stabilization of quasi-crystals by long-range internal stress fields.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90350-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88078314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preferential crystallite orientation in melt spun NdFeB permanent magnet materials","authors":"R. Coehoorn, J. Duchateau","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90308-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90308-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Melt spun NdFeB flakes have been produced which show a pronounced texture with the c axis perpendicular to the surface. The volume fraction of preferentially oriented crystallites at the surface and in the bulk were determined by X-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements respectively. The texture is most pronounced in slowly quenched flakes, and shows a strong dependence on composition. Optimally quenched flakes show a slightly improved (BH)<sub>max</sub> energy product (120kJ m<sup>−3</sup>) compared with optimally quenched untextured flakes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90308-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90437892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J.M. Frigerio, A. Meddour, A. Perez, M.G. Blanchin, J.P. Dupin, J. Rivory
{"title":"Electronic structure of quasi-crystalline AlMn in comparison with amorphous and crystalline alloys","authors":"J.M. Frigerio, A. Meddour, A. Perez, M.G. Blanchin, J.P. Dupin, J. Rivory","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90358-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90358-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mixing of Al/Mn multilayers by xenon ions of 500 keV allows amorphous or single-phase quasicrystalline samples to be obtained for manganese concentrations below 20 at.% depending on the substrate temperature during the mixing; at higher manganese concentrations, complex crystalline phases are found.</p><p>The optical conductivity is determined from reflectance and/or ellipsometric measurements in the energy range from 0.5 to 6 eV and is shown to be very sensitive to the atomic structure. All spectra are strongly dominated by the manganese d states. No drastic differences are observed between the amorphous and the icosahedral states in samples with 19 at.% Mn. Differences found in samples with the global composition 10 at.% Mn are more probably due to the presence of an aluminium phase and to the changes in the density of states of the amorphous phase with manganese concentration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90358-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75302185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local icosahedral packing energetics for d-band metals","authors":"Robert B. Phillips, A.E. Carlsson","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90355-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90355-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Local icosahedral order in solid environments is modelled by polytope {3, 3, 5} (a packing of atoms on S<sup>3</sup>, the surface of the unit sphere in four dimensions, with perfect icosahedral symmetry) and by a 147 atom extension of the Mackay icosahedron. The bonding energies of each are calculated in a one-electron d-band, tight binding model, as a function of d-band filling. The energies per site on the polytope, and on the central atom of the extended Mackay icosahedron, are then compared with those in the f.c.c. structure to reveal chemical trends in the relative stability of local icosahedral packing. The calculated structural energy differences show that even in fairly close-packed metals, local icosahedral packing is preferred only over a limited range of d-band fillings, roughly between 2 and 5 d-electrons per atom, even when frustration effects are artificially turned off by the use of the polytope. It is also observed that the magnitude of these energy differences is of the same order of magnitude as the structural energy differences between f.c.c. and b.c.c. structures and typically exceed the elastic energy differences which arise as a result of atomic size mismatches. These phase stability results are in marked contrast with those calculated in pair potential models.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90355-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76127014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic structure of (Ni33Zr67)1 − 1Xx (X ≡ Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni or Cu) ternary metallic glasses studied by low temperature specific heat measurements","authors":"Y. Yamada, Y. Itoh, U. Mizutani","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90342-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90342-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Low temperature specific heats were measured on a total of 35 (<em>Ni</em><sub>33</sub><em>Zr</em><sub>67</sub>)<sub>1 − <em>x</em></sub><em>X</em><sub><em>x</em></sub> (0 ⩽ <em>x</em> ⩽ 0.25) ternary metallic glasses, where X is any 3d transition metal from titanium to copper, over the temperature range 1.5–6 K. The magnetic specific heat is found to be superimposed on the ordinary contributions in the alloys containing manganese and iron. Except for these magnetic alloys, the variation in the density of states at <em>F</em><sub>F</sub> on adding the third element can be deduced from the measured electronic specific heat coefficient. The results can be explained on the basis of the UV photoelectron spectra measured on the same series of samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90342-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81104274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professeur Jacques Durand","authors":"W.L. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90278-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90278-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90278-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91633651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast dissipative and diffusional relaxation of the magnetic permeability in ferromagnetic metallic glasses","authors":"P. Allia , C. Beatrice , F. Vinai","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90284-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90284-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A strong relaxation of the a.c. magnetic permeability is observed in amorphous ferromagnets at very short times (<em>t</em> < 10<sup>−2</sup><em>s</em>) after impulse demagnetization. Such a relaxation is shown to be composed of two contributions of different natures and characteristics; a change in the energy dissipated by the oscillating domain walls, and a much smaller diffusive after-effect, similar to that usually observed at longer times after demagnetization. A method to observe this second contribution is proposed and discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90284-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90001891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Production and properties of melt-spun Fe-6.5wt.%Si ribbons","authors":"Y. Sato, T. Sato, Y. Okazaki","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90295-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90295-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fe-6.5wt.%Si ribbons were directly produced from the melt, using the rapid quenching technique of chillblock melt spinning. The effects of process parameters, wheel material, ambient gas and wheel surface velocity on the ribbon formation were investigated to establish the ribbon production process. The microstructures, textures and core losses of the ribbon produced were examined to determine the relationship between the ribbon thickness and these properties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100890,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0025-5416(88)90295-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90241702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}