Formation of bulk metallic glass by fluxing
Abstract
Bulk specimens (0.4-4 g mass) of the alloy Pd40Ni40P20 have been undercooled consistently to the glass state, with no detectable superficial crystallinity, in a molten flux of dehydrated boron oxide. The minimum dimension of the most massive glass specimen, so formed, was 1.0 cm. The absence of crystallinity in the specimens was confirmed by x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and calorimetry.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.95330
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApPhL..45..615K
- Keywords:
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- Amorphous Materials;
- Boron Oxides;
- Fluxes;
- Metallic Glasses;
- Palladium Alloys;
- Microgravity Applications;
- Nickel Alloys;
- Phase Transformations;
- Space Commercialization;
- Solid-State Physics