Atomic-level structure and structure–property relationship in metallic glasses

YQ Cheng, E Ma - Progress in materials science, 2011 - Elsevier
The structure of metallic glasses (MGs) has been a long-standing mystery. On the one hand,
MGs are amorphous materials with no long-range structural order; on the other hand …

Structural changes in metallic glass-forming liquids on cooling and subsequent vitrification in relationship with their properties

DV Louzguine-Luzgin - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present review is related to the studies of structural changes observed in metallic glass-
forming liquids on cooling and subsequent vitrification in terms of radial distribution function …

Mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

CA Schuh, TC Hufnagel, U Ramamurty - Acta Materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of amorphous alloys have proven both scientifically unique and
of potential practical interest, although the underlying deformation physics of these materials …

Charge transfer on the nanoscale: current status

DM Adams, L Brus, CED Chidsey… - The Journal of …, 2003 - ACS Publications
This is the report of a DOE-sponsored workshop organized to discuss the status of our
understanding of charge-transfer processes on the nanoscale and to identify research and …

Atomic-scale simulations of strain localization in three-dimensional model amorphous solids

Y Shi, ML Falk - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
Molecular-dynamics simulations of the mechanical properties of three different three-
dimensional metallic glass analogs reveal that each exhibits a transition from homogeneous …

Morphology and crystallization kinetics in HfO2 thin films grown by atomic layer deposition

MY Ho, H Gong, GD Wilk, BW Busch… - Journal of Applied …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We report the effects of annealing on the morphology and crystallization kinetics for the high-
gate dielectric replacement candidate hafnium oxide (HfO2). HfO2 films were grown by …

Elastic fluctuations and structural heterogeneities in metallic glasses

C Liu, R Maaß - Advanced Functional Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Suppressing crystallization of a metallic melt results in a disordered solid, also known as a
metallic glass. One may conclude that a metallic glass is free of defined structural length …

Medium-range structure and glass forming ability in Zr–Cu–Al bulk metallic glasses

P Zhang, JJ Maldonis, MF Besser, MJ Kramer… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluctuation electron microscopy experiments combined with hybrid reverse Monte Carlo
modeling show a correlation between medium-range structure at the nanometer scale and …

The study of nanovolumes of amorphous materials using electron scattering

DJH Cockayne - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Many of the structural elements of importance in materials applications (eg, thin films, barrier
layers, intergranular films in ceramics) are small in volume and amorphous. Although the …

Aluminum nanoscale order in amorphous Al92Sm8 measured by fluctuation electron microscopy

WG Stratton, J Hamann, JH Perepezko… - Applied Physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Fluctuation electron microscopy (FEM) measurements and simulations have identified
nanoscale aluminum-like medium-range order in rapidly quenched amorphous Al 92 Sm 8 …