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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Magnetically induced nonlinear diagnostic features of fe-co-si-B metallic glasses
1Department, Institute of Physics, Czestochowa Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna, al. Armii Krajowej 13y15, Czestochowa PL-42201, Poland. i.kityk@wsp.czest.pl
Abstract:
We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field on optical photoinduced second-harmonic generation (PISHG) in Fe(18)Co(60)Si(9)B(13) metallic glass. A correlation between the output PISHG signal and degree of crystallinity (varied by thermoannealing) is observed. The applied magnetic field essentially suppresses the relaxation time of the PISHG. Strong angular dependence of the output PISHG signal reflects the peculiarities of phase synchronism conditions that exist in certain types of glass as a result of light scattering on grains. Saturation of the PISHG at magnetic fields higher then 0.75 T indicates correlation between the magnetically induced ordering and noncentrosymmetry electron-charge density appearance. Comparison of PISHG with x-ray diffraction results indicates that the PISHG results have higher sensitivity to hyperfine magnetic ordering. A possible origin of the observed phenomena is explained on the basis of phenomenological and microscopic approaches.
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