Electronic transport and magnetic performance of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology
Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Texas at San Antonio
收稿日期:14 February 2014
基金:financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51171035);the Doctor Research Start-Up Funding of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (No.1062921406);
Electronic transport and magnetic performance of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses
Hai-Bin Wang Qing Wang Chong-Lin Chen Chuang Dong
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology
Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Texas at San Antonio
Abstract:
The electronic transport and magnetic performances of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses under low temperature were investigated. X-ray diffraction(XRD) analysis indicates that the Ni-Nb-Zr ribbons prepared by induction melting and melt spinning method have single amorphous phase. The electrical transport property results of these metallic glass alloys indicate that the Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses have negative resistivity temperature coefficients(RTC) and lowtemperature drift. The negative RTC and corresponding possible values of Fermi energy of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses are interpreted by the extended Ziman-Faber diffraction theory.The magnetic measurements indicate that the magnetic intensities of the Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses are related to Ni content and atomic sizes while the low temperature has few influences on the magnetic properties.
Keyword:
Metallic glass; Electrical resistance; Magnetic properties;
Author: Hai-Bin Wang haibin666666@163.com;
Received: 14 February 2014
1 Introduction
Since the discovery of quasicrystals by Shechtman,amorphous and quasicrystalline materials of metastable phase alloys have been rapidly developed
In the ternary Ni-Nb-Zr phase diagram,many metallic glass compositions were found
2 Experimental
Master ingots with compositions of Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06,Ni62.5Nb32.75Zr4.75 ([M-Ni6Nb4.24MZr0.76]Ni3),Ni62.5Nb31.25Zr6.25([M-Ni6Nb4MZr1]Ni3),and Ni48Nb32Zr20 were first prepared by arc melting the mixtures of the constituent elements under argon atmosphere.The purities of the elements are 99.99 wt%for Ni,99.99 wt%for Zr,and 99.95 wt%for Nb,respectively.The ingots were remelted three times to improve compositional homogeneity.Then,these master ingots were remelted by induction melting in a quartz tube,and ribbon samples with width of 2-3 mm and thickness of 20-30μm were produced by a single roller melting-spinning apparatus at a wheel surface velocity of 50 m·s-1.X-ray diffraction (XRD) with Cu Kαradiation (λ=0.15406 nm) was employed to study the crystallinity of these alloys.The electrical resistances of these ribbons in the temperature range of77-293 K were measured by a standard four-point method using the Lake Shore 370 AC resistance bridge.Liquid nitrogen was used to cooling down the ribbons to 77 K.Magnetic measurements were taken using a Quantum design physical property measurement systems(PPMS-9 system) with a vibrating sample magnetometer(VSM) at room temperature and low temperature cooled by liquid helium.
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Structural analysis
Figure 1 shows the typical XRD patterns of the as-prepared Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06,Ni62.5Nb32.75Zr4.75,Ni62.5Nb31.25Zr6.25,and Ni48Nb32Zr22 ribbons.The XRD patterns of the first three samples with richer Ni contents show wide diffused peaks near 42°and no detectable crystalline peaks,indicating that all of these three samples have fully amorphous phases.The lower Ni content alloy Ni48Nb32Zr20 also has a fully amorphous phase,but its amorphous peak shifts left obviously due to its larger average atomic radius.
Fig.1 XRD patterns of Ni-Nb-Zr ribbons with different compositions
3.2 Electronic transport properties
The electrical resistances of the ribbon samples as a function of temperature are shown in Fig.2a.All ribbon samples of Ni-Nb-Zr alloys exhibit negative RTC over the entire temperature range of 77-293 K.As shown in Fig.2b,the magnitudes of the resistances increase by2.0%-3.5%from room temperature to the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.Using this formula,
where RTCave is the average resistivity temperature coefficient,Rmax is the maximum resistance of a sample,Rmin is its minimum resistance,andΔT is the temperature difference,their average RTCs can be obtained:90×10-6-162×10-6 K-1.The values are much smaller than those of most pure metals,such as Ni:~0.05 K-1,Zr:~0.003 K-1.and Pt:~0.002 K-1
Although various models were developed to understand the electric transport properties of metallic glasses,the Ziman-Faber diffraction model is usually adopted
Fig.2 Temperature dependence of resistance of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glass ribbons in temperature range of 77-293 K a and ratio of resistances at boiling point of liquid nitrogen and room temperature b
where h is the reduced Planck constant,m is the mass of a electron,e is the electric charge of a electron,kF is the Fermi wave number,EF is the Fermi energy,Ωis the atomic volume,η2(EF) is the d-partial-wave phase shift describing the scattering of the conduction electrons by the ion cores which carry a muffin-tin potential centered on each ion position,S0(2kF) is the structure factor at T=0 K and scattering factor K=2kF,and W is the DebyeWaller factor.
Using Eq.(2),the RTC can be got by taking derivatives ofρ(T) with respect to T.
For T≥θD,αis given by:
whereθD is the Debye temperature.This equation demonstrates thatαis negative if ST(2kF)>1.Therefore,the negative RTC of ribbon samples of Ni-Nb-Zr alloys means 2kF lies in the vicinity of Kp,corresponding to K value at the first peak of structure factor S(K).More precisely,the negative RTC means the relative difference(η) between 2kF and Kp,given by:
must satisfyη≤10%according to the extended ZimanFaber theory.
The width of the main Brillouin zone (Kp) can be obtained from XRD patterns using:
where 2θp is the Bragg diffraction angle corresponding to the first peak of structure factor S(K).Using Eqs.(5) and(6),the possible values of kF and EF of these Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses are calculated,as listed in Table 1.
3.3 Magnetic performance
Figure 3 shows the hysteresis M-H loops of the Ni-Nb-Zr ribbon samples under magnetic field up to 8×105A·m-1.The saturated moments are 0.175,0.125,0.050,and0.050 A·m2·kg-1 under high magnetic field for the Ni-NbZr amorphous samples Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06,Ni62.5Nb32.75Zr4.75,Ni62.5Nb31.25Zr6.25,and Ni48Nb32Zr20.
Although the Ni-rich metallic glass Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06has the highest saturated moment of 0.175 A·m2·kg-1 among these Ni-Nb-Zr ribbon samples,it is still a weak magnetic substance compared with most Fe-and Co-based magnetic metallic glasses
Table 1 Calculated values corresponding to relation of 2kF and Kp
Fig.3 Magnetization curves of Ni-Nb-Zr samples under high magnetic field.Inset being detail of curves around origin of coordinates
Soft magnetic materials are defined as low coercivity(Hc<800 A·m-1) and high permeability.As shown in the insets of Figs.3 and 4,they all exhibit high coercivities.The coercivity(Hc) of Ni62.5Nb32.75Zr4.75,Ni62.5Nb31.25Zr6.25,and Ni48Nb32Zr20 are about 4000 A·m-1,while that of Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06 is about 1000-2000 A·m-1 at different temperatures.
Fig.4 Magnetization curves of Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06 at 10,150,and300 K.Inset being detail of curves around origin of coordinates
4 Conclusion
Ni-Nb-Zr ribbon samples with amorphous structure exhibit negative RTC in the temperature range of 77-293 K.Low-temperature drift with average RTC of 93×10-6-162×10-6 K-1 demonstrates that the Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses possess the prospects to become candidate for lowtemperature drift resistor used at low temperature from room temperature to 77 K.
The magnetic intensities of Ni-Nb-Zr metallic glasses decrease with the increases in average atomic electron number and the interatomic distance.The Ni-rich metallic glass Ni63.29Nb31.65Zr5.06 e×hibits the highest saturated moment of0.175 A·m2·kg-1 and the lowest coercivity of 2000 A·m-1among these Ni-Nb-Zr ribbon samples at 300 K.At 10 K,its s aturated moment reaches 0.182 A·m2·kg-1 and its coercivity decreases to~1000 A·m-1.
Acknowledgments This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51171035) and the Doctor Research Start-Up Funding of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (No.1062921406).
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