The thermoplastic forming properties in the supercooled liquid region of Mg 58 Cu 31 Nd 5 Y 6 bulk metallic glass (BMG) rods were systematically characterized by thermal mechanical analysis (TMA) and compressive tests at different temperature with various strain rates. The process window of thermoplastic forming for the Mg 58 Cu 31 Nd 5 Y 6 BMG was developed according to the results of TMA and the compressive tests. All evidence reveals that the Mg 58 Cu5 31 Nd 5 Y 6 BMG possesses excellent superplastic formability with the m value being nearly 1.0 in the supercooled liquid region of 430-503 K under a strain rate around 2.5 × 10 -3 -1.0 × 10 -2 s -1 . In parallel, a relatively low flow stress (less than 10 MPa) within the supercooled liquid region can be obtained with a strain rate of 2.5 × 10 -3 s -1 . Additionally, the replication of a hologram pattern with 100 nm depth also demonstrates extremely good microforming ability of this Mg-based BMG in the supercooled liquid region.Magnesium alloys have attracted great attention in the category of engineering materials in recent years because of their high specific strength/density ratio and high damping capacity. [1][2][3] However, the inherent of low stiffness and poor workability of conventional magnesium alloys has resulted in its limited application up to now. Therefore, the development of high specific strength Mg-based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) for application as structural materials is an important research topic. Recently, Inoue et al. [4,5] first found that Mg-Cu-Y ternary alloys exhibited high glass-forming ability (GFA) and can be produced as a BMG rod with a diameter of 7 mm by using copper mold-casting and high-pressure diecasting methods. Moreover, further improvement of the GFA has been reported by partially replacing Cu with a TM (TM: transition metal such as Ag, Pd, or Zn) in the Mg-Cu-Y alloy system, for example, Mg 65 Cu 15 Ag 10 Y 10 , [6,7] Mg 65 Cu 20 Zn 5 Y 10 , [8] and Mg 65 Cu 15 Ag 5 Pd 5 Y 10 . [9,10] Additionally, the significant improvement of their GFA has been reported by adding a rareearth element (Gd, Nd, Tb, Pr, or Dy) and lowering the amount of Mg in the Mg-based amorphous materials, such as Mg-Cu-Y-Gd, [11,12] Mg-Cu-Ni-Gd, [13] Mg-Cu-RE (RE = rareearth element), [14] Mg 54 Cu 28.5 Ag 8.5 Gd 11 , [15] Mg-Cu-GdNd, [16,17] and Mg-Cu-Y-Nd [18] alloy systems. All of these Mg-based BMGs exhibit high compressive fracture strength over 800 MPa, [19][20][21] which is twice the highest strength of conventional Mg-based crystalline alloys. In addition, these Mg-based BMGs usually present significant plasticity in supercooled liquid region (SCL) with behavior similar to a Newtonian viscosity of conventional glass materials, that is, the strain rate sensitivity exponent (m) is near 1. Hence, because of the superplastic deformation ability in the SCL region, Mg-based BMGs are capable of being manufactured into near-net-shape components, particularly for complexshaped microcomponents for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). [22][23][24][25...