摘要:
The present work is devoted to the development of Fe-(B-Si)-Zr amorphous alloys with high glass-forming ability and good magnetic properties. Using the cluster-plus-glue-atom model proposed for ideal amorphous structures, FeFe
11B
3Si(Fe
1−xZr
x) was determined as the cluster formula of Fe-(B-Si)-Zr alloys. The glass formation and thermal stability of the serial alloys, namely, FeFe
11B
3Si(Fe
1−xZr
x) (
x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.75, and 1.0), were studied by the combination of copper mold casting, X-ray diffraction, and differential thermal analysis techniques. The maxima of glass-forming ability and thermal stability were found to occur at the compositions of FeFe
11B
3Si(Fe
0.6Zr
0.4) and FeFe
11B
3Si(Fe
0.5Zr
0.5). The alloys can be cast into amorphous rods with 1.5 mm diameter, and upon reheating, the amorphous alloys exhibit a large undercooled liquid span of 37 K. The saturation magnetization of the FeFe
11B
3Si(Fe
0.5Zr
0.5) amorphous alloy was measured to be 1.4 T.