Structure and Magnetic Properties of Fe2MnGa
Yu. V. Kudryavtsev1, A. O. Perekos1, V. M. Iermolenko1, J. Dubowik2, I. M. Glavatskyi3, L. E. Kozlova4, Yu. B. Skirta4
1G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 36 Academician Vernadsky Blvd., UA-03680 Kyiv-142, Ukraine
2Institute of Molecular Physics PAN, ul. Mariana Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland
3Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, 1 Hahn Meitner Platz, 14109 Berlin, Germany
4Institute 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 Fe50.1Mn22.7Ga27.2 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 L12 and L21 types. The Fe50.1Mn22.7Ga27.2 alloy exhibits complicated temperature dependence of magnetic properties determined by the ferromagnetic (FM)-to-paramagnetic transformation (under heating) in L21 phase and transformation from the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state to the FM one in L12 phase. As revealed with ND data, the AFM order in L12 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 Fe2MnGa, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 36, No. 7: 967—976 (2014) (in Ukrainian)