“…The driving force for the crystallization is the Gibbs free energy difference between the amorphous and the crystalline states. Crystallization could happen when an amorphous solid is subject to heat treatment Suryanarayana & Inoue, 2011;Zhang et al, 2003;Zhang & Xu, 2004;Zhang et al, 2005a;2005b;Zhang et al, 2006a;Zhang et al, 2007a;Zhang et al, 2007b), mechanical deformation (Fornell et al, 2010;Lohwongwatana et al, 2006;Setyawan et al, 2010), pressure Jiang et al, 2002;Jiang et al, 2003b;Yang et al, 2006;Ye & Lu, 1999), and/or irradiations (Azam et al, 1979). Amongst these processing techniques, conventionally thermal annealing is the most commonly used in the investigation on crystallization of amorphous alloys.…”