R. Fuchs, S. Jost, H. Rudin, H.-J. Güntherodt, P. Fischer
{"title":"Preparation and structural investigation by X-ray and neutron scattering of quasi-crystalline and glassy Pd58.8Si20.6U20.6","authors":"R. Fuchs, S. Jost, H. Rudin, H.-J. Güntherodt, P. Fischer","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90371-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90371-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The metallic glass Pd<sub>58.8</sub>Si<sub>20.6</sub>U<sub>20.6</sub> has been produced by melt-spinning and was annealed in a helium stream at 790–805 K for 120–200 s.</p><p>During this procedure the material transforms into the so-called quasi-crystalline state. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements have shown that more than 92% of the former metallic glass becomes quasi-crystalline, less than 1% is crystallized and the rest remains amorphous.</p><p>The data for elastic neutron and X-ray scattering are presented. The computed total structure factors are compared. In contrast to the X-ray results, the neutron measurements show no peaks below a scattering vector of 2 Å<sup>−1</sup>, which seems to indicate some chemical short-range order.</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)90371-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72598386","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":"Crystallite size determinations for melt-spun FeNdB permanent magnet alloys","authors":"G.E. Carr, H.A. Davies, R.A. Buckley","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90311-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90311-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rapid solidification and subsequent processing are now a well-established route to the formation of FeNdB magnets. It is believed that an ultrafine grain size plays a major role in promoting high coercivity in this material. Crystallite size determinations have been made for as-cast melt-spun FeNdB ribbons of two composition types using X-ray diffraction peak-broadening analysis and transmission electron microscopy. The variation in crystalline size with ribbon thickness has been investigated for material cast onto copper and chromium roll surfaces. The magnetic properties <sub>i</sub><em>H</em><sub>C</sub>, <em>B</em><sub>r</sub> and (<em>BH</em>)<sub>max</sub> were examined in order to determine the dependence on particle size. Additionally, overquenched, largely amorphous ribbon has been annealed to induce devitrification to various crystallite sizes and the evolution with time was examined in order to establish the optimum conditions for good magnetic 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)90311-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79478870","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":"Metastable phase boundaries of quasicrystalline phases","authors":"D.M. Follstaedt, J.A. Knapp","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90359-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90359-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The melting curve T<sub>0</sub> of the metastable icosahedral phase and the liquidus of the decagonal phase of AlMn have been obtained for 14–22 at.% Mn. Icosahedral AlMn has a congruent melting point of 910±20°C at 20 at.% Mn and melts about 30°C lower than crystalline compounds with the same composition. Icosahedral Al<sub>82</sub>Ru<sub>18</sub> was determined to melt at 1260±30°C. These results were obtained by forming single-phase icosahedral alloys with ion beam mixing and then rapidly heating to accurately known temperatures with electron beams.</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)90359-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81746211","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":"Growth of quasi-crystals","authors":"S.R. Nishitani, K.N. Ishihara, K.F. Kobayashi, P.H. Shingu","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90374-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90374-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In AlMn and AlCr systems, icosahedral phases are produced by radio-frequency (r.f.) sputter deposition and liquid quenching. The concentration ranges of transition metals in icosahedral phases for r.f. sputter deposits are higher than those for liquid-quenched samples. The growth habit of the icosahedral phase produced by r.f. sputter deposition is similar to that produced by liquid quenching. In the AlMn icosahedral phase, the thermal stability in both methods is similar. But in the AlCr system, the icosahedral phase produced by r.f. sputter deposition is more stable than that produced by liquid quenching. Bulk samples of icosahedral phase in an AlMnCrSi alloy are produced by strained powder rolling, to measure mechanical 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)90374-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82583519","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}
B. Boucher, M. Sanquer, R. Tourbot, P. Chieux, P. Convert, M. Maret, J. Bigot
{"title":"Magnetic behaviour in amorphous TbxCu1−x alloys (x = 0.18, 0.22, 0.33, 0.50 and 0.65)","authors":"B. Boucher, M. Sanquer, R. Tourbot, P. Chieux, P. Convert, M. Maret, J. Bigot","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90314-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90314-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The results of susceptibility, magnetization and small-angle neutron scattering measurement for 4 <em>K</em> < <em>T</em> < 300 <em>K</em> are discussed. In all cases the magnetization is distributed in an inhomogeneous way either inside isolated bubbles or within the interbubble spaces. The terbium-poor alloys present a usual hysteresis loop contrary to the terbium-rich alloys for which the applied field plays an important role in establishing the moment order. The order established in a high field (<em>H</em> ≈ 3.6 × 10<sup>6</sup> A m<sup>−1</sup>) is preserved when this field decreases or is reversed. Polishing increases the volume of the magnetic domains within the sample and orients the moments at the surface perpendicular to the polishing direction.</p><p>The magnetic susceptibility in a 1.6 × 10<sup>5</sup> A m<sup>−1</sup> field and the isothermal magnetization (<em>H</em> ⩽ 3.6 × 10<sup>6</sup> A m<sup>−1</sup>) for each alloy have been measured for 4 <em>K</em> < <em>T</em> < 300 <em>K</em>; the magnetic properties are discussed in terms of the nuclear and magnetic medium-range order as determined by small-angle neutron scattering; the measurements were done at the Institut Laue Langevin, with the D 11 spectrometer. The samples were prepared by sputtering and also, for <em>x</em> = 0.65, by planar flow casting. In both cases the samples are in the form of sheets 40 μm thick and 1 cm wide. For sample <em>x</em> = 0.65 (planar flow casting), both faces were polished with fine sandpaper along a chosen direction and then measured.</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)90314-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81334617","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":"The discovery of quasicrystals through rapid quenching of metallic alloys","authors":"John W. Cahn","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90349-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90349-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A completely unexpected structure was discovered at the National Bureau of Standards by Dan Shechtman working with rapidly solidified AlMn alloys. Transmission electron microscopy studies showed dendritic crystals with an icosahedral diffraction pattern of sharp spots. The symmetry of the pattern implies that the structure cannot be periodic; the sharp spots indicated a translational order that approximates what mathematicians call quasiperiodicity. The structures have become known as quasicrystals.</p><p>Since the initial discovery a large number of systems have yielded quasicrystals by a variety of processing methods. There is even one ternary system AlLiCu in which the quasicrystal is a stable, rather than a metastable phase. At least one other symmetry (decagonal) has been observed and there are indications that there may be more than one crystal structure with icosahedral symmetry.</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)90349-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90999224","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":"Magnetic and thermal properties of (NdxFe1−x)82.5B17.5 glasses","authors":"Z. Altounian, D.H. Ryan","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90313-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90313-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of iron substitution by neodymium on the structural and magnetic properties of glassy FeB at the eutectic composition have been studied. Metallic glasses of composition (Nd<sub><em>x</em></sub>Fe<sub>1−<em>x</em></sub>)<sub>82.5</sub>B<sub>17.5</sub> were obtained by melt spinning for 0 ⩽ <em>x</em> ⩽ 0.25. The crystallization temperature (measured at a heating rate of 40 K min<sup>−1</sup>) rises to a maximum of 956 K at <em>x</em> = 0.10 and then falls as <em>x</em> → 0.25 because of the appearance of tetragonal Nd<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>14</sub>B as the primary crystallization product. The ordering temperature and iron moment are both extremely sensitive to alloying with neodymium, decreasing with <span><math><mtext>d</mtext><mtext>T</mtext><msub><mi></mi><mn><mtext>c</mtext></mn></msub><mtext>d</mtext><mtext>x</mtext><mtext> = 950 K (</mtext><mtext>at.% Nd</mtext><mtext>)</mtext><msup><mi></mi><mn>−1</mn></msup></math></span> and d<em>μ</em><sub>Fe</sub>/d<em>x</em> = 4.7<em>μ</em><sub>B</sub> (at.% Nd)<sup>−1</sup> respectively, and even by <em>x</em> = 0.2 the neodymium dominates the magnetic 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)90313-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88303190","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":"Crystallization of the AlMn icosahedral phase","authors":"K.F. Kelton, J.C. Holzer","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90362-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90362-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements of the crystallization kinetics of the icosahedral phase (i-phase) in Al<sub>x</sub>Mn<sub>100−x</sub> alloys for 78 ⩽ <em>x</em> ⩽ 90 are presented. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations show that for <em>x</em> > 82, the i-phase occurs as dendrites that are surrounded by α-Al. For <em>x</em><82, the decagonal phase appears in competition with the i-phase and completely replaces it by <em>x</em>=78. For one composition, Al<sub>86</sub>Mn<sub>14</sub>, the transformation kinetics and morphology were studied by electrical resistivity and DSC measurements, TEM and X-ray diffraction. The non-isothermal DSC data are fit using a numerical model. From these fits, we present crude estimates of the activation energy for the diffusion of aluminum in Al<sub>6</sub>Mn and a lower bound on the i-phase, Al<sub>6</sub>Mn interfacial energy.</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)90362-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89026884","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":"Influence of quench rate and hydrogen absorption on the magnetic properties of melt-spun Nd15Fe77B8","authors":"J.M. Cadogan, D.H. Ryan , J.M.D. Coey","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90310-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90310-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of wheel speed and hydrogen absorption on the magnetic properties of melt-spun Nd<sub>15</sub>Fe<sub>77</sub>B<sub>8</sub> have been studied using Mössbauer spectroscopy, magnetization measurements, differential scanning calorimetry and thermopiezic analysis (TPA).</p><p>Samples prepared at wheel speeds up to 30 m s<sup>−1</sup> consist mainly of microcrystalline tetragonal Nd<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>14</sub>B. At speeds greater than 50 m s<sup>−1</sup> the samples are composed of an amorphous phase, which orders magnetically at 435 K and crystallizes at 890 K. A mixture of crystalline and amorphous phases is obtained at intermediate wheel speeds.</p><p>TPA measurements show that hydrogen absorption proceeds via as many as three stages; the primary absorption of microcrystalline Nd<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>14</sub>B is at 680 K, whereas that of the ingot is at 530 K and that of the amorphous alloy is at 620 K. The Curie temperature and hyperfine field in amorphous Nd<sub>15</sub>Fe<sub>77</sub>B<sub>8</sub> (430 K and 27 T respectively) are considerably less than in crystalline Nd<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>14</sub>B. Hydrogenation raises the hyperfine field but leaves the Curie temperature almost unchanged.</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)90310-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88810001","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":"Magnetic anisotropy and process parameters in a nearly zero-magnetostriction metallic glass Fe4.5Co66Ni3.5Nb2Cr1B14Si9","authors":"C. Hargitai, C. Kopasz, S. Németh, B. Albert","doi":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90297-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0025-5416(88)90297-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The role of the empirical cooling rate Λ/t (where Λ is the thermal conductivity of the chill block and t is the ribbon thickness) is investigated in a nearly zero-magnetostrictive metallic glass Fe<sub>4.5</sub>Co<sub>66</sub>Ni<sub>3.5</sub>Nb<sub>2</sub>Cr<sub>1</sub>B<sub>14</sub>Si<sub>9</sub>. The average magnetostriction constant measured was −1.3 × 10<sup>−8</sup>. The glassy ribbons were prepared by planar flow casting using various process parameters at the Csepel Metalworks. Pure copper and Cu-2wt.% Be were used as the chill blockmaterial. The following parameters of the ribbons were measured: the actual chemical composition, the average thickness, the temperature coefficient of resistivity, the microhardness, the coercive forces measured parallel and perpendicular to the ribbon axis, the saturation magnetization, the saturation magnetostriction constant, the dynamic magnetic permeability and the quasi-static hysteresis curves. The preliminary search for correlation among the measured data has revealed that the in-plane anisotropy of the coercive force can effectively play the same dominant role as the empirical cooling rate. In this way, we conclude that in a zero-magnetostriction alloy the magnetic parameters are essentially determined by the anisotropies created during the production of the ribbons. The long-term room temperature aging of the ribbons was also investigated.</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)90297-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89722164","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}