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Mössbauer studies of iron-rich metallic glasses

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Iron-based metallic glasses have recently become an important class of ferromagnetic materials exhibiting excellent soft magnetic properties coupled with good mechanical properties. These glasses are usually prepared by rapid quenching techniques and are produced in thin long ribbon form with widths ranging from a few mm to 150 mm or more.57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been extensively used to study hyperfine interaction parameters in these metallic glasses to understand ferromagnetism in amorphous structure. In particular, Mössbauer spectra have been carefully analyzed to reveal information about the distribution of hyperfine fields resulting from the randomness of the atomic arrangement and to understand the temperature dependence of hyperfine fields, spin-wave excitations, magnetic structure, thermal stability and crystallization, the quenched-in magnetization axis, the Curie temperature and its dependence on compositions, the effect of stress and pressure on the magnetic properties, corrosion behaviour, local order and atomic arrangement, phase transformation, etc. This paper reviews the application of57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy to magnetic studies on metallic glasses mainly based on the iron-boron alloy system, and some of the significant results obtained which are characteristic of the glassy/amorphous state.

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Bhatnagar, A.K. Mössbauer studies of iron-rich metallic glasses. Hyperfine Interact 25, 637–666 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354670

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