Short-range order in transition-metal—metalloid glasses

Abstract

Iron hyperfine-field distributions of amorphous Fe-B (15-25 at.% B) alloys were determined by the Mössbauer technique. They show the presence of a strongly correlated local order which can be described in the ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{75}$ ${\mathrm{B}}_{25}$ glass as the chemical short-range order of the ${\mathrm{Fe}}_3$B intermetallic compound.