Investigation of Effect of Annealing the Fe₇₈Si₉B₁₃Amorphous Alloy Using the EELS Method and the Hall Effect

Abstract

The effect of structural relaxation on the electronic structure of Fe78Si9 B13 metallic glass was investigated by means of the Hall effect, electrical conductivity and EELS methods. The effect of the structural relaxations was observed by four-hour annealing of the samples in argon atmosphere at temperatures 573, 673, 723, 773 K. The most distinct changes in the measured quantities were observed for samples annealed at 773 K. The differences in EELS spectrum, a decrease in the electrical and the Hall resistance are specific to these samples. X-ray diffractometry confirmed that the samples annealed at this temperature show recrystallization.

Electron Structure of d-Transition Metals and their Alloys on the Basis of EELS Study

“…Values of characteristic energy losses ΔΕ were published in Refs. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. The calculations were made using relations (4), (6), (8) and (10) and the obtained results are given in Tabs.…”