Stability of state of rapidly quenched alloys of the system Fe?Si?B

Assessment of the ternary Fe–Si–B phase diagram

“…Aronsson [12], Efimov [13] and Chaban [14] studied the Fe-Si-B equilibria finding three ternary compounds: Fe 5 Si 2 B, Fe 4.7 SiB 2 and Fe 2 Si 0.4 B 0.6 . In this study all these are described as stoichiometric phases expressing their free energy according to the formula: …”

“…In the literature the most recent assessment of the ternary Fe-Si-B system has been provided, also using own experimental data, by Tokunaga [1] comparing the results with the ternary equilibria found experimentally by Aronsson [12], Efimov [13] and Chaban [14]. Although the issue of glass formation is clearly raised in [1], the metastable Fe 3 B phase was not taken into account.…”