Determination of the partial structure factors of amorphous CuZr by anomalous X-ray scattering and reverse Monte Carlo

Anomalous X-ray Scattering experiments have been performed to study the local order in an amorphous CuZr sample prepared by mechanical alloying. The three partial structure factors were extracted both using a regularization algorithm to solve an ill-conditioned system of linear equations and applying the reverse Monte Carlo technique to the experimental data. Then the short range atomic distributions of similar samples prepared by different methods and investigated by different techniques are compared.