HYDROGEN DIFFUSION IN AMORPHOUS FeCrB RIBBONS

The article deals with the study of hydrogen absorption (hydrogenation) and desorption (dehydrogenation) in amorphous ferromagnetic FeCrB ribbons prepared by rapid quenching from the melt. A simple theoretical model was proposed for description of hydrogen concentration and determination of diffusion coefficient in these materials. Using this model diffusion coefficient can be calculated using experimentally obtained values of average hydrogen concentration in the sample during dehydrogenation process. The values of diffusion coefficients are comparable with those obtained by hydrogen permeation test. The proposed method is not only simple but it also makes possible to determine diffusion coefficient under the same conditions as the changes of other properties of these materials during their dehydrogenation.