Studies of the electronic and atomic structure of amorphous metals by NMR

The local character of the hyperfine interactions between nuclei and their electronic surroundings makes NMR a suitable tool to investigate the local electronic structure of metals and among them the newly introduced amorphous metallic alloys. Beside the electronic properties nuclei can also probe indirectly some structural characteristics of their environment such as symmetry properties which cannot be obtained by direct structural measurements in amorphous metals. The author, while reviewing some relevant NMR measurements in amorphous metals, points out what information NMR can yield about the influence of the lack of long range order on electronic and magnetic properties of amorphous metals and about the atomic arrangements in these materials. (Auth.)