In or der to com bine ni o bium (Nb) with lanthanum (La) and cerium (Ce), Nb ions were depos ited within a thin film of these two el e ments. Ac cord ing to the Hume-Rothery rules, these el e ments can not be com bined into a tra di tional crys tal line me tal lic solid. The cre ation of an amor phous me tal lic glass con sist ing of Nb, La, and Ce is then in ves ti gated. Amor phous metal lic glasses are tra di tion ally made us ing fast cool ing of a so lu tion of mol ten met als. In this pa per, we show the re sults of an ex per i ment car ried out to form a me tal lic glass by im plant ing 9 MeV Nb 3+ at oms into a thin film of La and Ce. Prior to im plan ta tion, the ion vol ume distri bu tion is cal cu lated by Monte Carlo sim u la tion us ing the SRIM tool suite. Us ing mul ti ple meth ods of elec tron mi cros copy and ma te rial char ac ter iza tion, small quan ti ties of amor phous me tal lic glass are in deed iden ti fied.
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