X-ray diffraction, transmission Mِssbauer spectrometry and conversion electron Mِssbauer spectroscopy studies of the Fe87Zr6B6Cu1 nanocrystallization process

X-ray diffraction and conversion electron Mِssbauer spectrometry (CEMS) measurements of Fe87Zr6B6Cu1 samples in different steps of the crystallization process have been performed. The results have been compared with those obtained by means of the transmission Mِssbauer technique. The X-ray diffraction patterns and CEMS spectra of the samples present systematically larger crystallized fractions than those corresponding to spectra obtained by transmission Mِssbauer spectroscopy (TMS). As these techniques offer us information about different regions of the sample, the differences among the obtained results have been related to an inhomogeneity of the crystallization process into the sample induced by thermal treatments.