Bulk metallic glasses of Nd 65 Al 10 Fe 25Ϫx Co x ͑xϭ0,5,10͒ have been prepared in the form of 3 mm diam rods. Results of differential scanning calrimetry, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ͑DMTA͒, and x-ray diffraction are presented for these alloys. It is shown that the glass transition and crystallization have been observed by DMTA. The reduced glass transition temperature of these glasses, defined as the ratio between the glass transition temperature T g and the melting temperature T l is in the range from 0.55 to 0.62. All these glasses have a large supercooled liquid region ͑SLR͒, ranging from 80 to 130 K. The high value of reduced glass transition temperature and wide SLR agree with their good glass formation ability. Recently, a number of multicomponent alloys with excellent glass forming ability ͑GFA͒ have been reported. [1][2][3][4] These alloys require a critical cooling rate of 100 K/s or less for the glass formation, whereas conventional glassy alloys require a critical cooling rate of 10 3 -10 6 K/s with the exception of certain noble metal based alloys. 5,6 Various criteria have been proposed to reflect the GFA in the alloys in previous studies. Turnbull proposed that the reduced glass transition temperature T rg , defined as the ratio between the glass transition temperature T g and the melting temperature T l , could be used to evaluate the GFA of an alloy, and a higher value of T rg favors the glass formation. 7 This empirical criterion is in good agreement with the observations of previous and recent glass-forming alloys. Inoue and Masumoto adopted the temperature interval ⌬TϭT x1 ϪT g as a measure of the stability of the undercooled liquid above T g . A clear correlation between the GFA and the value of ⌬T is obtained in the newly found bulk metallic glasses ͑BMGs͒, such as Ln-Al-TM, Mg-Ln-TM, Zr-Al-TM, Ti-Zr-TM, and Zr-Ti-TM-Be ͑Ln: lanthanide metal, TM: transition metal͒ systems. [1][2][3][4]8 However, it seems that these empirical criteria are not applicable to the Nd-Fe-Al and Pr-Fe-Al BMGs. 9-11 Neither distinct glass transition nor supercooled liquid region is observed in their differential scanning calrimetry ͑DSC͒ traces, though the glassy samples with cross section up to 12 mm can be obtained by suction casting. The T g is then thought to be higher than the crystallization temperature T x , and the T rg is evaluated to be as high as 0.90 for the Nd 70 Fe 20 Al 10 and 0.85 for Nd 60 Fe 30 Al 10 alloys, respectively. The exceptional T rg does not reflect their practical GFA, and the absence of obvious supercooled liquid region in Nd-based metallic glasses is different from all BMGs reported so far. In this work, Nd 65 Al 10 Fe 25Ϫx Co x alloys have been prepared by chill casting. Dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ͑DMTA͒ combined with DSC and x-ray diffraction ͑XRD͒ were used to study the glass transition and thermal stability of these BMGs. The factors reflecting the GFA of these alloys were discussed.Ingots with compositions Nd 65 Al 10 Fe 25Ϫx Co x ͑xϭ0, 5,10͒ were prepared by ar...