The thermodynamics structural relaxation of Fe73Cu1.5Nd3Si13.5B9 amorphous alloy from room temperature to 400℃ has been investigated by measuring the structure factor with in situ X-ray diffraction. The structural information of the atomic con-figuration such as radial distribution function (RDF) and neighbor atomic distance was gained by Fourier transformation. The research result shows that the amor-phous structure remains stable in the temperature range of 30 to 400℃ but exhibits distinct changes in local atomic configuration with the increase of temperature. The quantitative determination of the neighbor atomic distance suggests that the de-gree of short-range order changes by the temperature altering the second nearest neighbor local atomic configuration of the amorphous when structural relaxation occurs.
LI Gong,XU Tao,GAO YunPeng & LIU RiPing Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology,Yanshan University,Qinhuangdao 066004,China
