Anti-Aging in Ultrastable Metallic Glasses

作者:Luettich Martin; Giordano Valentina M; Le Floch Sylvie; Pineda Eloi; Zontone Federico; Luo Yuansu; Samwer Konrad; Ruta Beatrice
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120(13): 135504.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.135504

摘要

As ultrastable metallic glasses (UMGs) are promising candidates to solve the stability issues of conventional metallic glasses, their study is of exceptional interest. By means of x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we have investigated the stability of UMGs at the atomic level. We find a clear signature of ultrastability at the atomic level that results in slower relaxation dynamics of UMGs with respect to conventional (rapidly quenched) metallic glasses, and in a peculiar acceleration of the dynamics by near T-g annealing. This surprising phenomenon, called here anti-aging, can be understood in the framework of the potential energy landscape. For all samples, the structural relaxation process can be described with a highly compressed shape of the density fluctuations, unaffected by thermal treatments and regardless of the ultrastability of the glass.

  • 出版日期2018-3-30