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Magnetism and structure of metallic glasses

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Metallic glasses are a rather new class of materials. They offer exciting possibilities for finding new materials with combinations of properties unknown for crystalline alloys. Mössbauer spectroscopy, along with other nuclear methods, has been employed successfully in fundamental studies of their properties. Two aspects of these studies are the subject of this paper.

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    Structural investigations. The observation of nuclear quadrupole interactions in metallic glasses provides a unique possibility to obtain information about local atomic configurations and their symmetry. This structural aspect is complementary to the radial pair distributions derived from X-ray or neutron diffraction and it plays a decisive role in the discrimination between different structural models.

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    Magnetism. In metallic glasses, the structural disorder at the atomic scale modifies the properties of magnetically ordered materials compared to their crystalline counterparts. For materials containing rare-earth ions, in particular, local atomic structures have a direct influence on the magnetic properties.

Examples for recent experimental studies of these phenomena are presented and discussed.

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Czjzek, G. Magnetism and structure of metallic glasses. Hyperfine Interact 25, 667–680 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354671

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