Published 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Structural and magnetic disorder in Nd90-xFexAl10 glassy hard magnets

  • 1. National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, 47 Mangeron Blvd., 6600 Iasi (Romania)
  • 2. Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Uppsala University, 61182 Nykoeping (Sweden)

Description

The scattering functions have been measured for Nd90-xFexAl10 (x=35-50) amorphous melt-spun ribbons with thicknesses up to 120 μm at temperatures between 15 and 300 K. The data have been used to model the atomic structures using the reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) method. The RMC models confirm the existence of very small Fe-based atomic clusters, quenching conditions dependent and distributed isotropically in the Nd-rich amorphous matrix. We proposed a structure consisting of a packing of nanometer-sized clusters for these easy glass-forming Nd-Fe-based amorphous alloys. (orig.)

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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003390201355

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Journal Title
Applied Physics. A, Materials Science and Processing
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
1,Suppl
Journal Page Range
p. s680-s682
ISSN
0947-8396
CODEN
APAMFC

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Notes
With 2 figs., 8 refs.