Neutron scattering study of the magnetism in a nanocrystalline/amorphous material
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Reactor Radiation Div.
- Allied Signal Inc., Morristown, NJ (United States)
Recently developed nanocrystalline magnetic systems are of considerable interest fundamentally as well as technologically. One such material is Fe{sub 73.5}B{sub 9}Si{sub 13.5}Cu{sub 1}Nb{sub 3}, which can be produced by heat treating the amorphous precursor. This forms a noncrystalline phase with typical dimension of 350 {angstrom} as determined by neutron diffraction. Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been employed to investigate the properties of the nanocrystallized material over the temperature range from 10 K to 725 K, a regime where no significant structural changes are expected to occur. In zero field and low temperature (10 K) the authors obtained an isotropic scattering pattern. The application of a relatively modest field to sweep out the domains changed the scattering to a butterfly wings pattern typical of patterns dominated by magnetic elastic intensity. Up to 450 K this pattern changed only modestly, while for substantially higher temperatures the ratio of inelastic to elastic scattering increased rapidly as the magnetic phase transition of the intergranular component ({approx_equal} 575 K) was approached. Triple axis inelastic measurements showed that the majority of the magnetic inelastic scattering was from the nanocrystalline phase.
- OSTI ID:
- 225308
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941144-; ISBN 1-55899-278-2; TRN: IM9621%%238
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Boston, MA (United States), 28 Nov - 9 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Neutron scattering in materials science 2; Neumann, D.A. [ed.] [National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)]; Russell, T.P. [ed.] [IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (United States)]; Wuensch, B.J. [ed.] [Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)]; PB: 813 p.; Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 376
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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