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Nanocrystalline iron-based alloys investigated by Mössbauer spectrometry

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Nanocrystalline alloys exhibit great fundamental and technological interests because of their microstructural properties, and their excellent soft magnetic properties. 57Fe Mössbauer spectrometry is a well suitable technique to investigate Fe-based nanocrystalline alloys: its local probe behaviour permits to elucidate the nature of hyperfine interactions at different resonating iron nuclei and to distinguish their immediate atomic surroundings. We review on the recent Mössbauer developments performed on first FeCuMBSi and then FeCuBSi nanocrystalline alloys. From Mössbauer studies, one can estimate the crystalline (i.e., amorphous) fraction, the Si-content in Fe--Si nanocrystalline grains emerging from amorphous alloys of the first series, the temperature dependence of magnetic behaviours of both crystalline and amorphous phases; finally, we present a novel fitting procedure applied to FeCuBSi nanocrystalline alloys which result from bcc-Fe crystalline grains embedded in an amorphous matrix. In this case, the hyperfine structure is able to model the intergranular phase.

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Greneche, J. Nanocrystalline iron-based alloys investigated by Mössbauer spectrometry. Hyperfine Interactions 110, 81–91 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012671315478

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