Structure of Ni-B-Melts by Means of X-Ray Diffraction

Abstract

Abstract The structural results for molten Ni81B19 are compared with the structure of a metallic glass which can be obtained at the same composition by rapid quenching the melt within a melt spin equipment. Structural relationship exists between the molten and the amorphous state. This feature follows especially from a marked asymmetry of the second maximum of the structure factor obtained from the melts, to which corresponds the splitting up of the second maximum in the total structure factor of the amorphous specimen. With the Ni53B47- and the Ni43B57 -melts which don't belong to the concentration range of glass-forming Ni-B-melts no peculiarities in the range of the second maximum of the structure factor were observed.