Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 420, Issue 1-2, Pages 50-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2005.09.029
Keywords
nanostructures; soft magnetic materials; crystalline fraction; cryogenic heat capacity; amorphous materials
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An amorphous Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13.5B9 alloy was prepared by the rapid solidification technique. The rapidly quenched alloys have been annealed in the temperature range from 490 to 550 degrees C for 90 min and their structure was investigated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD). After annealing, at crystallization temperature, the microstructure of the samples composed of nanocrystalline Fe3Si grains surrounded by the residual amorphous phase. The crystal fractions of the annealed samples were evaluated by heat capacity measurements. Heat capacities of the as-quenched and annealed samples were measured at different temperatures between 15 and 40 K. This method is useful for evaluating small changes in the amount of crystalline phase and provides a new tool for finding the nanocrystalline fraction. The volume fraction of the crystalline phase increased from 15.92 to 94.21% as annealing temperature increased from 490 to 550 degrees C. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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