Atomic-scale mechanisms of the glass-forming ability in metallic glasses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Yang, L ^a   Guo, G Q ^a   Chen, L Y ^b,h   Huang, C L ^a   Ge, T ^a   Chen, D ^a   Liaw, P K ^c   Saksl, K ^d   Ren, Y ^e   Zeng, Q S ^f   Laqua, B ^g   Chen, F G ^a   Jiang, J Z ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Slovakia)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY SYSTEM; ATOMIC LEVELS; ATOMIC-SCALE MECHANISMS; COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE; CRITICAL SIZE; CRYSTAL ALLOYS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GLASS-FORMING ABILITY; PACKING EFFICIENCY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

ATOMS; GLASS; METALLIC GLASS; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM;

NIOBIUM;

EID: 84866054095     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.105502     Document Type: Article

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