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FIZIKA A 14 (2005) 1 , 97-106
 
PROPERTIES AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS ZIRCONIUM
RAMIR RISTIĆa and EMIL BABIĆb
aFaculty of Phylosophy, POB 144, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia
bDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, POB 331, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Received 11 October 2004; Accepted 21 January 2005
Online 2 December 2005
Wide glass-forming range in Zr-M alloys (M = late transition metal) combined with a
simple, often linear, variation of their physical properties with composition makes it
possible to deduce physical properties of pure amorphous zirconium. We explore this
possibility by using our experimental results for the magnetic susceptibility and
superconducting transition temperature of paramagnetic amorphous Zr – (Co,Ni,Cu) alloys
extending over a wide composition range. By combining these results with the literature
results for the low temperature specific heat of the same alloy systems, we obtained a set
of parameters associated with the electronic structure of the amorphous Zr. The comparison
of these parameters with the results of the electronic structure calculations for
different crystalline phases of Zr and with the results of the atomic structure and
initial crystallisation studies of the same alloy systems indicate a fcc-like local atomic
structure for amorphous Zr.
PACS number: 75.50. Kj
UDC 537.622, 539.213
Keywords: glassy Zr alloys, magnetic susceptibility, structure
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