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The basic polyhedral clusters, the optimum glass formers, and the composition-structure-property (glass-forming ability) correlation in Cu-Zr metallic glasses J. Appl. Phys. 107, 063508 (2010) We studied atomic and electronic structures of binary Cu-Zr metallic glasses (MGs) using combined experimental and computational methods including X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power (TEP) measurements, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and ab-initio calculations. The results of MD simulations and extended X-ray absorption fine structure analysis indicate that atomic order of Cu-Zr MGs and can be described in terms of interpenetrating icosahedral-like clusters involving five-fold symmetry. MD configurations were used as an input for calculations of theoretical electronic density of states (DOS) functions which exhibits good agreement with the experimental X-ray absorption near-edge spectra. We found no indication of minimum of DOS at Fermi energy predicted by Mott's nearly free electron (NFE) model for glass-forming alloys. The theoretical DOS was subsequently used to test Mott's model describing the temperature variation of electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of transition metal-based MGs. We demonstrate that the measured temperature variations of electrical resistivity and TEP remain in a contradiction with this model. On the other hand, the experimental temperature dependence of electrical resistivity can be explained by incipient localization of conduction electrons. It is shown that weak localization model works up to relatively high temperatures when localization is destroyed by phonons. Our results indicate that electron transport properties of Cu-Zr MGs are dominated by localization effects rather than by electronic structure.We suggest that NFE model fails to explain a relatively high glass-forming ability of binary Cu-Zr alloys. V C 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.[http://dx

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Local structure around Mn atoms in (MnS) 2x (CuInS 2 ) 1-x alloys for x ≤ 0.09 has been determined using near-edge and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (XANES and EXAFS) measured at the Mn K-edge. We found that for the Mn concentration up to 9 at% Mn atoms substitute preferentially for indium in the chalcopyrite lattice. The Mn -S bond length is 2.43 ± 0.015 Å, and is about 2% shorter than the In -S bond length.