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Neutron Diffraction Study of Fe2MnGa Heusler Alloys

Yu. V. Kudryavtsev1, A. E. Perekos1, I. N. Glavatskyy2, J. Dubowik3, Yu. B. Skirta4

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

Received: 03.11.2015. Download: PDF

Effect of temperature and magnetic field on the structure and magnetic properties of Fe50.1Mn22.7Ga27.2 і Fe51.6Mn17.8Ga30.6 alloys is investigated in a temperature range 100 К < T < 580 К by using elastic neutron diffraction (ND) and magnetometry. The degree of atomic order as well as magnetic moments localized at the Mn and Fe sites in the investigated Fe2MnGa alloys are experimentally evaluated using the ND data. Some disagreement between the experimental and calculated values of magnetic moments localized at the Mn and Fe sites can be explained by noticeable atomic disorder in the prepared Fe2MnGa alloys. If antiferromagnetic order really exists in L12-phase containing Fe50.1Mn22.7Ga27.2 alloy, this order has not a collinear character.

Key words: neutron diffraction, magnetic properties, atomic order, structural transformations.

URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v38/i01/0053.html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.38.01.0053

PACS: 61.05.cp, 61.05.fm, 72.15.Eb, 75.30.Cr, 75.30.Kz, 75.40.Cx, 75.50.Ee

Citation: Yu. V. Kudryavtsev, A. E. Perekos, I. N. Glavatskyy, J. Dubowik, and Yu. B. Skirta, Neutron Diffraction Study of Fe2MnGa Heusler Alloys, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 38, No. 1: 53—66 (2016)


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