Nanoscale structure and structural relaxation in Zr50Cu45Al5 bulk metallic glass.
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Hybrid reverse Monte Carlo simulations of the structure of Zr50Cu45Al5 bulk metallic glass incorporating medium-range structure from fluctuation electron microscopy data and short-range structure from an embedded atom potential produce structures with significant fractions of icosahedral- and crystal-like atomic clusters. Similar clusters group together into nanometer-scale regions, and relaxation transforms crystal-like clusters into icosahedral clusters. A model refined against only the potential does not agree with the fluctuation microscopy data and contains few crystal-like clusters.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 108 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012