Structure and Magnetic Properties of Fe$_{2}$MnGa

Yu. V. Kudryavtsev$^{1}$, A. O. Perekos$^{1}$, V. M. Iermolenko$^{1}$, J. Dubowik$^{2}$, I. M. Glavatskyi$^{3}$, L. E. Kozlova$^{4}$, Yu. B. Skirta$^{4}$

$^{1}$G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 36 Academician Vernadsky Blvd., UA-03680 Kyiv-142, Ukraine
$^{2}$Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, ul. Mariana Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland
$^{3}$Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, 1 Hahn Meitner Platz, 14109 Berlin, Germany
$^{4}$Institute of Magnetism under NAS and MES of Ukraine, 36b Academician Vernadsky Blvd., UA-03680 Kyiv-142, Ukraine

Received: 23.04.2014; final version - 30.06.2014. Download: PDF

Magnetic properties of Fe$_{50.1}$Mn$_{22.7}$Ga$_{27.2}$ alloy in connection with its atomic structure are investigated in temperature range of 4—850 K by using neutron diffraction (ND) and magnetometry. As revealed, the annealed (at 1020 K during 96 hours) and quenched (in ice water) alloy contains ordered phases of superstructural L1$_{2}$ and L2$_{1}$ types. The Fe$_{50.1}$Mn$_{22.7}$Ga$_{27.2}$ alloy exhibits complicated temperature dependence of magnetic properties determined by the ferromagnetic (FM)-to-paramagnetic transformation (under heating) in L2$_{1}$ phase and transformation from the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state to the FM one in L1$_{2}$ phase. As revealed with ND data, the AFM order in L1$_{2}$ phase is not strongly antiparallel. Absence of significant exchange anisotropy in the alloy can be explained by the random orientation of magnetic moments of the FM-phase grains, which are adjacent to the AFM-phase regions.

Key words: metamagnetic transformation, martensitic transformation, magnetic properties, exchange anisotropy, neutron diffraction.

URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v36/i07/0967.html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.36.07.0967

PACS: 61.05.fm, 64.60.Cn, 64.75.Op, 72.15.Eb, 75.25.-j, 75.30.Kz, 75.50.Bb

Citation: Yu. V. Kudryavtsev, A. O. Perekos, V. M. Iermolenko, J. Dubowik, I. M. Glavatskyi, L. E. Kozlova, and Yu. B. Skirta, Structure and Magnetic Properties of Fe$_{2}$MnGa, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 36, No. 7: 967—976 (2014) (in Ukrainian)


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