Prof. A.

INOUE
Metallic Glass (Tohoku Univ.)

History of bulk metallic materials The Characteristics of Metallic Glass

Bronze age
Comparing the phase change of metallic glassy alloy V.S. conventional
Iron age amorphous alloy heated by 1 K/s of heating rate
Low Temperature High Temperature

Bulk Metallic Crystal

Conventional Amorphous Crystal Liquid
Amorphous Tx Tm
Atom Grain Boundary
Grain
Super
Schematic diagram of Metallic GlassyMetallic Glass Cooled Crystal Liquid
crystalline metallic
structure alloy Liquid Tx Tm
Tg
DTx=Tx-Tg
The Discovery of bulk metallic glassy alloy

Expansion Elongation Tｘ：Crystallization starting

Bulk Metallic temperature
Glassy alloy Tg：Glass Transition
Temperature
Tm：Melting Temperature
Schematic diagram of metallic glassy △Tx：Super Cooled
alloy structure
Liquid Temperature range
Super Cooled Metallic Liquid Working Process

②Excellent Mechanical Properties of Metallic Glassy

Alloy (High Strength, Low young’s modulus)

Copper mould Water quenching

casting

Arc melting
casting

Arc melting
forging

①Excellent soft magnetism of Fe based

metallic glassy alloy

Co Based amorphous alloy

Magnetic Permeability, µe(1 kHz)

Fe based metallic
glassy alloy

Fe based
Amorphous
alloy
Fe based Zr65Al7.5Ni10Cu17.5 metallic glassy alloy forging in the super
Amorphous cooled liquid state forged at a time for optical Instrument part.

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Saturated Magnetic flow Density, Bs / T
 Ultra Fine Processing and application
of Metallic Glassy alloy
Ultra fine process of Metallic glassy alloy

200 [nm]

20 [nm]
0

0 0 2 0 0

5 2 0 0 4 0 0
5 4 0 0
6 0 0 6 0 0
1 0 8 0 0
1 0 1 0 0 0
[ n m ]
1 µm [ µ m ]

17 nm groove made by FIB process from metallic glassy alloy plate

3 0 0 n m

Ultra fine LAM image of metallic glassy alloy after processed by FIB
5 0 0 n m

Ultra fine shape of Pt deposited film Metallic Glassy Ingot Plate

on the processed Pt based metallic glass

60×45∼200×125×0.3∼1.0㎜ Ａ４ Ｓｉｚｅ
Ingot of controlled compositional core Each size of plate for mass production A4 Size metallic glassy alloy plate
for fuel cell
Metallic Glass Rod and Powder

Φ1∼Φ4×1000㎜ Φ2∼Φ6×100㎜
Each size of metallic glassy rod Metallic glass powder of each composition
Metallic glass pipe and shape materials
Metallic glass gear, spring and ball
Pipe

Diameter 0.3ｍｍ∼

Pipe type Φ4×Φ3×200㎜ Shape materials Φ2.0

Metallic glass casing and fine surface after viscose flow process