Criteria for formation of metallic glasses: The role of atomic size ratio
Author(s) -
Hyon-Jee Lee,
Tahir Çağın,
William L. Johnson,
William A. Goddard
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the journal of chemical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 357
eISSN - 1089-7690
pISSN - 0021-9606
DOI - 10.1063/1.1615494
Subject(s) - icosahedral symmetry , atomic radius , ternary operation , cluster (spacecraft) , phase (matter) , amorphous metal , materials science , symmetry (geometry) , crystallization , quasicrystal , alloy , coordination number , chemical physics , crystallography , metal , molecular dynamics , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , metallurgy , computational chemistry , ion , geometry , mathematics , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language
We consider metallic alloys of Cu*, Cu, and Cu** in which the atoms differ only in their atomic radii and examine how the size ratio affects the local orders in the alloy systems. These studies use molecular dynamics simulations in which the atomic interactions are modeled with a Sutton‐Chen many-body potential. Considering rapid cooling of these binary and ternary alloys from the melt, we find three regimes defined by the magnitude of atomic size ratiol ~l<1.0!: with ~i! large size ratios of 0.95,l<1.0, crystallization occurs; ~ii! with moderate size ratios of 0.60
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