Published August 7, 2014 | Version v1
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Thermal and soft magnetic properties of Co40Fe22Ta8B30 glassy particles: In-situ X-ray diffraction and magnetometry studies

  • 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz University of Technology, Shiraz (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  • 2. POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, P-ta Victoriei 2 Timisoara (Romania)
  • 3. IFW Dresden, Institute for Complex Materials, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden (Germany)
  • 4. TU Dresden, Institute of Materials Science, 01062 Dresden (Germany)
  • 5. Photon Science DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22603 Hamburg (Germany)

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The structural evolution of Co40Fe22Ta8B30 glassy particles has been studied by in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) upon isochronal annealing. The changes in position, intensity, and full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the first and second diffuse maxima of the XRD patterns suggest the occurrence of irreversible structural relaxation upon the first heating up to a temperature close to the glass transition temperature Tg. The variations in reduced pair correlation functions upon annealing are discussed in the frame of the topological fluctuation theory for structural relaxation. Isochronal annealing of the Co40Fe22Ta8B30 glassy particles improves their soft magnetic properties through decreasing the coercivity and increasing the magnetic susceptibility, saturation magnetization, and Curie temperature

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Journal Title
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal Volume
116
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054904-054904.8
ISSN
0021-8979
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