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Figure 1697a shows a HRTEM and electron diffraction pattern of a thermally quenched  Zr₇₀Al₈Cu_13.5Ni_8.5 MG (metallic glass).  The diffraction pattern shows a diffusion halo, indicating the absence of precipitates with size larger than 3 nm. Moreover, the absence of any nanocrystalline phase in the diffraction pattern confirms that this material consists of only a purely glassy structure in amorphous phase. The HRTEM image further showing a highly disordered structure without any sign of nanocrystals or ordered clusters, confirms again the fully glass nature.

Figure 1697a. HRTEM and electron diffraction pattern of a thermally quenched  Zr₇₀Al₈Cu_13.5Ni_8.5 metallic glass. [7]

The method based on FFT and inverse FFT developed by Miller and Gibson [2] and extended by Li et al. [3] and Jiang and Atzmon [4] later was applied to analyze the SRO (short range ordering) clusters by Zhu et al. [1]. They employed a core–shell model to investigate the shear bands in as-cast Zr₆₄Nb₆Cu_13.5Ni_8.5Al₈ specimen (Figure 1697b). In Figure 1697b (b), the bright-yellow part represents the zone with more free volume (FV), while the dark-blue part represents the zone with less FV. The core is proposed as SRO clusters with a different coordination number (CN) [5] and the local FV is shell. It is defined that SRO clusters with CN of 12 or more than 12 have no FV, while ordering clusters with CN < 12 have certain FV [6].

Figure 1697b. (a) HRTEM image of an as-cast sample for Zr₆₄Nb₆Cu_13.5Ni_8.5Al₈ alloys (the inset presents fast Fourier transform (FFT) pattern), and (b) The corresponding Fourier-filtered, threshold filtered and inverted image. Adapted from [1]

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[2] Peter D. Miller and J. Murray Gibson, Connecting small-angle diffraction with real-space images by quantitative transmission electron microscopy of amorphous thin-Þlms, Ultramicroscopy 74 (1998) 221-235.
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[7] Y.H. Li, W. Zhang, C. Dong, J.B. Qiang, K. Yubuta, A. Makino, A. Inoue, Unusual compressive plasticity of a centimeter-diameter Zr-based bulk metallic glass with high Zr content, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 504S (2010) S2–S5.