Local elastic properties of a metallic glass
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The nature of non-crystalline materials causes the local potential energy of a cluster of atoms or molecules to vary significantly in space. Different configurations of an ensemble of atoms in a metallic glass lead therefore to a distribution of elastic constants which also changes in space. This is totally different to their crystalline counterparts, where a long-range order exists in space and therefore a much more unified elastic modulus is expected. Using atomic force acoustic microscopy, we present data which show that the local so-called indentation modulus M indeed exhibits a wide distribution on a scale below 10 nm in amorphous PdCuSi, with ΔM/M≈30%. About 10(4) atoms are probed in an individual measurement. Crystallized PdCuSi shows a variation that is 10-30 times smaller and which is determined by the resolution of the microscope and by the polycrystalline structure of the material.
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OpenAlex topics: Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys · Material Dynamics and Properties · Glass properties and applications
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