Abstract
The crystallization of the Ni33Y67 and Cu33 Y67 metallic glasses has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and neutron diffraction. The crystallization occurs in two steps which for Ni33Y67 are the primary crystallization of the Y3Ni compound and the eutectic crystallization of the Y 3Ni and Y3Ni2 compounds, and for Cu33Y 67 the coprecipitation of the cubic YCu phase, the hcp Y phase and a metastable phase and at higher temperatures the decomposition of this third phase into YCu and Y. From a comparison with data on Zr-based glasses and using the hole model of Buschow [1], we show that the important size effect can explain the small activation energies for the crystallization of Ni 33Y67 and Cu33Y67 and the occurrence of a chemical short-range order, as in Ni33Y67, does not always imply a higher thermal stability

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