著者

Nobuyuki Nishiyama Akihisa Inoue

出版者

The Japan Institute of Metals

雑誌

Materials Transactions, JIM (ISSN:09161821)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, no.5, pp.464-472, 1997 (Released:2007-06-01)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

108 111

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A Pd40Cu30Ni10P20 alloy subjected to B2O3 flux treatment was found to have a low critical cooling rate (Rc) of 0.100 K/s for glass formation and a large sample thickness (tmax) of 72 mm by the water quenching process. The Rc and tmax exceed largely those (Rc=1.57 K/s, tmax=40 mm) for the Pd–Cu–Ni–P alloy without the flux treatment. It is concluded that the flux treatment causes a significant increase in the thermal stability of the supercooled liquid. The glass transition temperature (Tg) remains unchanged in the fluxed state, but the crystallization temperature (Tx) increases by 7 K, leading to the extension of the supercooled liquid region defined by ΔTx(=Tx−Tg) to 98 K which is larger than that (91 K) for the non-fluxed sample. The decrease in Rc and the increases in tmax and ΔTx for the fluxed sample are presumably due to the suppression of heterogeneous nucleation for crystallization resulting from the increase in the degree of cleanness of the molten alloy. Besides, the Pd–Cu–Ni–P amorphous alloy has lower Rc and melting temperature (Tm) and larger tmax, ΔTx and Tg⁄Tm values, as compared with those for Pd40Ni40P20 alloy. The larger glass-forming ability for the Pd–Cu–Ni–P alloy is presumably due to the increase in the degree of the satisfaction of the three empirical rules for the achievement of larger glass-forming ability resulting from the more systematic change in atomic size in the order Pd>>Cu>Ni>>P and the generation of Cu–Pd and Cu–P atomic pairs with negative heats of mixing. There is no appreciable difference in the Tg, Tx and crystallization behavior between the cast 72 mmφ amorphous ingot and melt-spun amorphous ribbon. The finding of the fluxed Pd40Cu30Ni10P20 alloy with the lower Rc and larger tmax values is promising for the future development of bulk amorphous alloys.