Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
4-15-1985
Abstract
The hysteresis and crystallization behavior of an amorphous Nd54Co36B10 alloy have been examined over a range of temperatures. Crystallization studies show a glass transition temperature around 210 °C, two crystallization peaks at around 220 and 360 °C, and two endothermic peaks at around 530 and 600 °C, respectively. ac susceptibility measurements show an ordering temperature of 38 K for the amorphous phase. Four additional magnetic phases have been observed in the crystallized samples with ordering temperatures 17, 45, 90, and 190 K, respectively. Magnetic measurements on melt-spun ribbons reveal a coercivity of 6 kOe at 4.2 K. The coercivity at 4.2 K of a sample heat treated at the first crystallization temperature is increased to 8 kOe but is reduced gradually upon annealing at higher temperatures and is only 2.5 kOe in a sample annealed at a temperature close to the second endothermic peak. Journal of Applied Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics.
Comments
Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Applied Physics 57, 4133 (1985). ©1985 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.