Investigation of amorphous and crystalline Sc3Fe alloys

Amorphous Sc₃Fe alloy has been prepared by splat-cooling with levitation melting. The quadrupole splitting distributions for Sc₃Fe were determined from Mössbauer spectra: the zero-field distribution has a Gaussian form. The analysis of Mössbauer spectra taken in applied magnetic field show that both positive and negative signs of principal component (V_z2) of electrical field gradients (EFG) are present. The crystallization process has also been investigated. Heat treatment of the amorphous alloys causes crystallization first into a metastable, and then into the stable phase.