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Crystallization and Glass Foriation in Electron and Laser Beam Irradiated Cu-Zr Alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

J. S. Huang ,
E. N. Kaufmann ,
M. A. Wall  and
B. L. Olsen
J. S. Huang
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550
E. N. Kaufmann
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550
M. A. Wall
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550
B. L. Olsen
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550
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Abstract

Four Cu-Zr alloys, Cu56Zr44, Cu50Zr50, Cu47Zr53, and Cu33Zr67, were surface melted with electron and pulsed laser beams to compare their kinetics of nucleation, growth and glass formation. It was observed that the ease of glass formation increased in the order: Cu33Zr67, Cu47Zr53, Cu56Zr44, and Cu50Zr50. The nucleation and regrowth produced different metastable phases. At the equiatomic composition, the preferred phase is a CsCl-type (B2) BCC structure. As the composition deviates from this, the preferred phase is either orthorhombic or tetragonal with a much larger unit cell not previously reported in the literature. The maximum growth velocity of these metastable phases was found to be about 0.025 m/s. The slow kinetics are responsible for the ease of glass formation in these systems.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 100: Symposium – A Fundamentals of Beam-Solid Interactions and Transient Thermal Processing , 1988 , 589
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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