An extended criterion for estimation of glass-forming ability of metals

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1378-1383

  Louzguine Luzgin, Dmitri V ^a   Inoue, Akihisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GLASS TRANSITION; LIQUID METALS; METAL FORMING; SOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

GLASS-FORMING ABILITY; KAUZMANN'S PARADOX; SPECIFIC-VOLUME-TEMPERATURE;

METALLIC GLASS;

EID: 34250214850     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0167     Document Type: Article

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