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Nanocrystallization of amorphous (Fe1-xCox)88Zr7B4Cu1 alloys and their soft magnetic properties

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Amorphous ribbons of (Fe1-xCox)88Zr7B4Cu1 (x = 0.2, 0.35, 0.5, and 0.6) alloys were annealed to produce a nanocrystalline phase dispersed in the amorphous matrix. Precision lattice parameter calculation showed that composition of the nanocrystalline phase is Fe73Co27 for all the alloys irrespective of initial alloy composition. This result was well corroborated with the Mössbauer results. Saturation magnetization of annealed ribbons was almost same for all the alloys, however, coercivity increases with Co content.

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This work was supported by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), New Delhi, India. The authors thank Dr. A.K. Singh (DMRL) and Dr. Kiran (MIDHANI) for their help in measurements and Dr. G. Malakondaiah, Director, DMRL for continued support and permission to publish this work.

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    Diraviam Arvindha Babu, Bhaskar Majumdar, Rajdeep Sarkar, Muthuvel Manivel Raja & Dilshad Akhtar

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Babu, D.A., Majumdar, B., Sarkar, R. et al. Nanocrystallization of amorphous (Fe1-xCox)88Zr7B4Cu1 alloys and their soft magnetic properties. Journal of Materials Research 26, 2065–2071 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2011.166

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