A highly dense Ni59Zr20Ti16Si2Sn3 partial amorphous metallic coating, about 500mm thick, was fabricated by means of HVAF (High Velocity Air Fuel) thermal spraying. Amorphous alloy powders produced by using gas atomization were used for HVAF thermal spraying to produce an amorphous metallic coating. Microstructural investigation showed that crystallization and oxidation occurred during thermal s...

A theoretical formula based on carrier scattering in systems with a certain degree of disorder has been derived, which describes well the buildup transients of persistent photoconductivity and carrier transport due to the conduction-band tail states in semiconductor alloys. Important parameters, including the distribution of tail states caused purely by alloy disorder, can be obtained by compar...

In the field of metallic materials with amorphous structures, it is vitally important to understand the glass formation and to predict glass-forming ability (GFA) in terms of constituent elements and alloy compositions. In this study, an expression has been formulated from first-principles calculations to predict the trend of GFA by hybridizing both internal energies and atomic-scale defect str...

The elemental powder mixtures with a nominal composition of Ti50Cu20Ni24Si4B2 can be amorphized under high-energy ball milling. A well-defined glass transition before crystallization appears in the obtained amorphous phase during heating in a differential scanning calorimeter. Awide supercooled liquid region DTx is available to be about 57 K. Crystallization of the ballmilled amorphous phase wa...

The nanocrystallization processes in Fe-Si-B-Nb-Cu and Fe-Nd-B(-Cu-Nb) amorphous alloys have been studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and a three dimensional atom probe (3DAP). Cu additions are effective in refining the nanocrystalline microstructures of an Fe74.5Si13.5B8Nb3Cu1 alloy and an Fe3B/Nd2Fe14B nanocomposite microstructure. This is because Cu atoms form a high density of...

We have measured X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANFS) of mechanically alloyed YzFe and YFez system as a fundion of milling time. An amorphous phase is obtained by mechanical alloying for 100 hours in the YzFe system and for 500 hours in the YFez system. In both systems the intensity of Fe Is-4pn transition grows up significantly with increasing the milling time and approaches to that of...

From different sources of carbon , propane have been chosen to get a wider band gap amorphous silicon alloy . After analyzing the conductivity and optical gap variation with the doping ratio , the best were used to fabricate 5x5 cm solar cells . Those cells are connected to form 75 x 75 cm panels. Photo-oxidation were carried out using different sources as an accelerated method to study the met...

Under energetic ion bombardment, amorphous materials deform plastically in the form of anisotropic growth. At medium electronic stopping power (5 to 30 keV/nm) this phenomenon starts only after a certain incubation dose depending on values of the electronic stopping power and temperature. This delay is modeled on the basis of the assumption of a drastic irradiation induced viscosity reduction, ...

When deposited at room temperature, sputtered NiTi thin films are amorphous and need to be crystallized before they can be used as a functional material. We present the results of an annealing study on substrate-constrained NiTi shape memory thin films. Amorphous films of a NiTi shape memory alloy were deposited by UHV sputtering. Films of thickness 1.0 μm were grown on (100) Si wafers both wit...

The fracture and fatigue properties of a newly developed bulk metallic glass alloy, Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5 Ni10Be22.5 (at. pct), have been examined. Experimental measurements using conventional fatigue precracked compact-tension C(T) specimens (,7-mm thick) indicated that the fully amorphous alloy has a plane-strain fracture toughness comparable to polycrystalline aluminum alloys. However, signific...