Correlation between magnetic properties and the electronic structures of soft magnetic ternary Fe(78-x)Y(x)B(22) (x = 4-9) bulk metallic glasses

M T Liu; S C Ray; H M Tsai; C W Pao; D C Ling; W F Pong; J W Chiou; M-H Tsai; L Y Jang; T W Pi; J F Lee; C Y Lin; T S Chin

doi:10.1088/0953-8984/20/46/465105

Correlation between magnetic properties and the electronic structures of soft magnetic ternary Fe(78-x)Y(x)B(22) (x = 4-9) bulk metallic glasses

J Phys Condens Matter. 2008 Nov 19;20(46):465105. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/46/465105. Epub 2008 Oct 27.

Authors

M T Liu¹, S C Ray, H M Tsai, C W Pao, D C Ling, W F Pong, J W Chiou, M-H Tsai, L Y Jang, T W Pi, J F Lee, C Y Lin, T S Chin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui 251, Taiwan.

PMID: 21693839
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/46/465105

Abstract

Fe and Y K-edge extended x-ray absorption fine structure, Fe(Y) L(3,2)-edge (L(3)-edge) x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and valence-band photoemission spectroscopy (VB-PES) measurements have been carried out to study soft magnetic ternary Fe(78-x)Y(x)B(22) bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). The combined XANES and VB-PES results do not show broadening of the Fe 3d band to support the previous interpretation of the reduction of the magnetic moment in BMGs by Y-induced decrease of exchange splitting of Fe 3d orbitals. Instead, the density of delocalized/itinerant Fe 3d states in the vicinity of the Fermi level is found to be reduced by Y substitution, which reduces the strength of itinerant-states-mediated ferromagnetic coupling between local spins on the Fe ions and the total magnetic moment of the Fe-based BMGs.