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Comparing the atomic and macroscopic aging dynamics in an amorphous and partially crystalline Zr44Ti11Ni10Cu10Be25 bulk metallic glass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2017

Zach Evenson Open the ORCID record for Zach Evenson [Opens in a new window] ,
Alba Payes-Playa ,
Yuriy Chushkin ,
Marco di Michiel ,
Eloi Pineda  and
Beatrice Ruta
Zach Evenson*
Affiliation:
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) and Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching 85748, Germany
Alba Payes-Playa
Affiliation:
ESRF—The European Synchrotron, Grenoble 38043, France; and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain
Yuriy Chushkin
Affiliation:
ESRF—The European Synchrotron, Grenoble 38043, France
Marco di Michiel
Affiliation:
ESRF—The European Synchrotron, Grenoble 38043, France
Eloi Pineda
Affiliation:
Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica Catalunya—BarcelonaTech, ESAB, Castelldefels 08860, Spain
Beatrice Ruta*
Affiliation:
ESRF—The European Synchrotron, Grenoble 38043, France; and Institute of Light and Matter, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex 69622, France
*
a) Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: zachary.evenson@frm2.tum.de
b) e-mail: beatrice.ruta@univ-lyon1.fr
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Abstract

Several recent X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy works have reported an anomalous atomic dynamics in hyperquenched metallic glasses. Here, we compare and contrast these microscopic dynamics with that found in a Zr44Ti11Ni10Cu10Be25 bulk metallic glass, prepared with a cooling rate some 6 orders of magnitude lower. In both cases, structural relaxation in the glass is governed by internal stresses, giving rise to highly compressed density correlation functions. Differently from the fast aging reported in previous studies, here the atomic dynamics displays a slow linear atomic-level aging, while not affecting the shape parameter. Traditional macroscopic phenomenological models fail to capture the temperature dependence of the microscopic structural relaxation time, suggesting a length scale dependence of the aging. Interestingly, the dynamics does not seem to be affected by the presence of a low percentage of frozen nanocrystals and displays a temperature dependence similar to that observed in macroscopic viscosity measurements.

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amorphousannealingalloy

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 32 , Issue 11 , 14 June 2017 , pp. 2014 - 2021
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Contributing Editor: Jürgen Eckert

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