Effect of Mn Substitution Fe on the Formability and Magnetic Properties of Amorphous Fe88Zr8B4 Alloy

Abstract

Elemental substitution is commonly used to improve the formability of metallic glasses and the properties of amorphous alloys over a wide compositional range. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the influence of element content change on the formability as well as magnetic and other properties. The purpose is to achieve tailorable properties in these alloys with enhanced glass forming ability. In this work, the glass-forming ability (GFA) and magnetic properties of the minor Mn-substituted Fe88Zr8B4 amorphous alloy were investigated. The addition of Mn improving the amorphous forming ability of the alloy. With the addition of Mn, the magnetic transition temperature, saturation magnetization and the magnetic entropy changes (−ΔSm) peaks decreased simultaneously, which is possibly caused by the antiferromagnetic coupling between Fe and Mn atoms. The dependence of −ΔSmpeak on Tc displays a positive correlation compared to the −ΔSmpeak- Tc−2/3 relationship proposed by Belo et al.