Structural origin of the high glass-forming ability in Y-doped bulk metallic glasses

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1701-1705

  Yanga, Liang ^a   Giio, Gu Qing ^a   Zhang, Guo Qing ^b   Chen, Lian Yi ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK METALLIC GLASS; DENSE PACKING; GLASS-FORMING ABILITY; ICOSAHEDRAL CLUSTERS; MEDIUM RANGE; MINOR ALLOYING; MULTICOMPONENTS; STRUCTURAL ORIGIN; STRUCTURAL UNIT; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION TECHNIQUES; Y-DOPED;

ALLOYING; AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; GLASS; ZIRCONIUM;

METALLIC GLASS;

EID: 77958042192     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.0236     Document Type: Article

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