ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY OF COBALT-BORON LQA ALLOYS

Activation energies determined from Arrhenius plot for cobalt-boron liquid quenched amorphous alloys in the temperature range 40 K < T < 300 K , suggest vacancy and interstitial formation to nucleate crystalline phases in an amorphous matrix preferably at sites where dangling bonds are present. Nucleation of crystallites with preferential tetragonal or orthorhombic structures is a self-evolving process due to catalytic presence of dangling bonds in an amorphous material and that the occurrence of negative activation energies support this evidence.