Correlation between thermal induced structural and magnetic transformations in Si-rich Fe73Cu1Si16B7Nb3 metal alloy

Properties of amorphous Fe73Cu1Si16B7Nb3 foil, the Si rich metal alloy, and the foils partly crystallised after annealing, were analysed structurally and magnetically in the temperature range from 4 to 1000 K. The Fe (Si) and Fe (B) structures were identified and characterised with the crystallisation temperatures: 750 and 893 K, activation energies 460 and 580 kJ/mol. The Curie temperatures for amorphous structure: 613 K and for crystalline structures: 820, 875, 920 and 980 K were determined. It was found and analysed a delay of the sample magnetisation, determined by thermomagnetometry, with respect to structural crystallisation, determined by scanning calorimetry, which was correlated with magnetic hyperfine field, determined by transmission Mössbauer spectroscopy.