High-throughput discovery and characterization of multicomponent bulk metallic glass alloys

This work describes a high-throughput experimental method to characterize compositional trends in the glass forming ability and mechanical behavior of a ternary metallic alloy system. Continuously-graded composition libraries of Cu-Zr-Ti ternary alloys were produced by laser deposition, and continuous regions of glass-forming compositions were rapidly identified through an optical microscopy technique. By varying the laser processing parameters...