X-ray diffraction, transmission Mössbauer spectrometry and conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of the Fe87Zr6B6Cu1 nanocrystallization process

Abstract X-ray diffraction and conversion electron Mossbauer spectrometry (CEMS) measurements of Fe 87 Zr 6 B 6 Cu 1 samples in different steps of the crystallization process have been performed. The results have been compared with those obtained by means of the transmission Mossbauer technique. The X-ray diffraction patterns and CEMS spectra of the samples present systematically larger crystallized fractions than those corresponding to spectra obtained by transmission Mossbauer spectroscopy (TMS). As these techniques offer us information about different regions of the sample, the differences among the obtained results have been related to an inhomogeneity of the crystallization process into the sample induced by thermal treatments.