PHYSICS OF AMORPHOUS METALS
ON THE STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS METALS INTRODUCTION: PREPARATION OF AMORPHOUS METALS, AND SIMPLE MODELS THE RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION AND THE STRUCTURE FUNCTION STRUCTURAL MODELS OF GLASSY METALS THE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD AN EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN FOR THE ELECTRON-ION SYSTEM OF ELEMENTAL METALS PSEUDOPOTENTIAL THEORY MODEL PSEUDOPOTENTIALS MICROSCOPIC THEORY OF THE HOMOGENEOUS ELECTRON GAS THE EFFECTIVE INTERACTION BETWEEN IONS IN LIQUID OR AMORPHOUS METALS THE EFFECTIVE TWO-PARTICLE ION-ION INTERACTION (TO SECOND ORDER IN THE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL) EFFECTIVE ION-ION PAIR INTERACTION TO CUBIC ORDER IN THE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL MANY-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN METALLIC HYDROGEN COMPUTER CALCULATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE IN METALLIC AMORPHOUS ALLOYS ATOMIC PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS METALS: OW-ENERGY EXCITATIONS EXPERIMENTS ON THE ATOMIC DYNAMICS IN GLASSES A TUNNELLING MODEL A QUASI-PHONON MODEL FOR AMORPHOUS METALS; HEAT CAPACITY AT MODERATELY LOW TEMPERATURES THE QUASI-PHONON CONTRIBUTION TO THE HEAT CONDUCTIVITY AND SOUND ABSORPTION AT MODERATELY LOW TEMPERATURES BEYOND THE QUASI-PHONON APPROXIMATION MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS METALS REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS FERROMAGNETS NEAR THE CURIE TEMPERATURE THE SPECTRUM OF QUASI-MAGNON EXCITATIONS IN AMORPHOUS FERROMAGNETS LOW-TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC BEHAVIOR OF AMORPHOUS FERROMAGNETS BEYOND THE QUASI-MAGNON APPROACH: COMPUTER SIMULATIONS THE THERMODYNAMICS OF AMORPHOUS FERROMAGNETS ITINERANT MAGNETISM AND ITINERANT SPIN-GLASS BEHAVIOR IN AMORPHOUS ALLOYS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF GLASSY METALS THE ELIASHBERG EQUATION FOR AMORPHOUS METALS THE ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING CONSTANT AND THE SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE FOR SIMPLE AMORPHOUS METALS SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF BINARY ALLOYS OF SIMPLE AMORPHOUS METALS CONCLUSIONS (OR HYDROGENATED FE1–XZRXHY, OR MG1–XCAX ALLOYS, AND MANY OTHER SPECIES), OR (B) COMPOSED OF AT LEAST ONE METALLIC AND ONE NON-METALLIC ‘METALLOID’ COMPOUND, AS E G AMORPHOUS FE1–XBX, WHICH EXISTS IN THE COMPOSITION RANGE BETWEEN X=0 15 AND 0 33 THESE SYSTEMS ARE STABLE IN THE AMORPHOUS STATE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE, OR AT LEAST METASTABLE, WITH LIFETIMES OF UP TO YEARS OR DECADES, AND THEY CAN BE PREPARED IN DIFFERENT WAYS SOME PREPARATION METHODS ARE MENTIONED HERE, NAMELY THE SO-CALLED ‘SPLAT-COOLING’ TECHNIQUE, IN WHICH AN ‘ANVIL’ WITH A DROPLET OF THE MELT ON IT IS HIT WITH A KIND OF PISTON – THE DROPLET IS QUENCHED IMMEDIATELY TO A FLAT AMORPHOUS FILM; THE SO-CALLED ‘MELT SPINNING’ METHOD, WHICH IS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL MASS PRODUCTION, BUT IS ALSO COMMONLY USED IN RESEARCH INSTI- TUTES THE MELT IS CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCED BY INDUCTION HEATING AND DROPPED IN A CONTINUOUS FLOW ONTO A ROTATING CU WHEEL OF TYPICALLY 1 M DIAMETER, SUCH THAT A CONTINUOUS RIBBON OF THE AMORPHOUS METAL IS TANGENTIALLY EJECTED FROM THE