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Crystallization of Fe83B17 amorphous alloy by electric pulses produced by a capacitor discharge

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Heating of conductive materials by electric current is used in many technological processes. Application of electric pulses to metallic glasses induces their fast crystallization, which is an interesting and complex phenomenon. In this work, crystallization of the Fe83B17 amorphous alloy induced by pulses of electric current produced has been studied using X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. Ribbons of the alloy were directly subjected to single pulses of electric current 250 µs long formed by a capacitor discharge. As the value of \(\smallint I^{2} {\text{d}}t\) was increased from 0.33 to 2.00 A2 s, different crystallization stages could be observed. The crystallization began through the formation of the nuclei of α-Fe. At high values of \(\smallint I^{2} {\text{d}}t\), α-Fe and tetragonal and orthorhombic Fe3B and Fe23B6 were detected in the crystallized ribbons with crystallites of about 50 nm. Thermal annealing of the ribbons at 600 °C for 2 min resulted in the formation of α-Fe and tetragonal Fe3B. It was concluded that pulses of electric current produced by a capacitor discharge induced transformation of the Fe83B17 amorphous phase into metastable crystalline products.

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This work was partially supported by the basic research funds of the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. KG acknowledges support from JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 25820340).

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  1. WPI-AIMR Tohoku University, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Konstantinos Georgarakis

  2. Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMAP-CNRS), Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), 1130, rue de la Piscine, Saint-Martin-d’Hères Campus, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France

    Konstantinos Georgarakis, Alberto Moreira Jorge Jr. & Alain R. Yavari

  3. Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kutateladze str. 18, Novosibirsk, Russian, 630128

    Dina V. Dudina & Natalia V. Bulina

  4. Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str. 2, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090

    Dina V. Dudina

  5. Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave. 15, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090

    Vyacheslav I. Mali & Alexander G. Anisimov

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos, Via Washington Luiz, km 235, São Carlos, SP, 13565-905, Brazil

    Alberto Moreira Jorge Jr.

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Georgarakis, K., Dudina, D.V., Mali, V.I. et al. Crystallization of Fe83B17 amorphous alloy by electric pulses produced by a capacitor discharge. Appl. Phys. A 120, 1565–1572 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9356-0

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