Impression of magnetic clusters, critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect in Fe3Al alloys

被引:33
作者
Dash, Shubhra [1 ]
Lukoyanov, A. V. [2 ,3 ]
Knyazev, Yu. V. [2 ]
Kuz'min, Yu. I. [2 ]
Baglasov, E. D. [3 ]
Weise, Bruno [4 ]
Kumar, Pramod [5 ]
Vasundhara, M. [6 ]
Patra, Ajit K. [1 ]
机构
[1] Cent Univ Rajasthan, NH-8, Bandrasindri 305817, Rajasthan, India
[2] RAS, Inst Met Phys UD, S Kovalevskoy 18, Ekaterinburg 620108, Russia
[3] Ural Fed Univ, Mira 19, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
[4] IFW Dresden, Inst Complex Mat, Helmholtzstr 20, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
[5] IIIT Allahabad, Spintron & Magnet Mat Lab, Allahabad 211012, Uttar Pradesh, India
[6] Natl Inst Interdisciplinary Sci & Technol, Mat Sci & Technol Div, CSIR, Trivandrum 695019, Kerala, India
关键词
ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENT; FIELD-DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE; ORDER; DISORDER; NEUTRON; PHASE;
D O I
10.1039/c9cp01358j
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Herein, we report unusual magnetic behavior in arc melted bulk stoichiometric Fe3Al alloy with a D0(3) structure. The temperature variation in the magnetization measurements revealed two transitions, i.e. one at similar to 763 K and another at similar to 830 K. Below 763 K, it exhibits ferromagnetic ordering and the nature of the transition is second order. However, the second transition is more complex and detailed analysis of the magnetic data suggested the coexistence of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases (two-phase: alpha + D0(3)/alpha + B2) and structural transitions triggered by temperature. We observed dual peaks in the magnetic entropy change curve, in accordance with the magnetization results, which corroborate the occurrence of a two-phase system. We believe that the concurrent magnetic ordering and the complex two-phase are associated with the evolution of short-range ordered magnetic clusters having a magnetic moment of similar to 10(3)mu(B) in the host matrix. A cluster hypothesis is proposed to explain the observed intricate magnetic behavior of this alloy at high temperature. The estimated critical exponents using a modified Arrott plot, Kouvel-Fisher plot and critical isotherm analysis lie in between the 3D-Heisenberg and 3D-Ising model, indicating a short-range interaction and magnetic inhomogeneity, which again are consistent with the magnetization results. The obtained critical exponents follow the universal scaling behavior, which indicates the renormalization of interactions around the magnetic ordering transition (T-C). Despite the obvious larger thermal entropy at very high temperature, our synthesized Fe3Al alloy showed enhanced magnetic entropy changes. The obtained magnetic entropy change for binary Fe3Al alloy shows twice the value of that of other binary/ternary Fe-based alloys.
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页码:10823 / 10833
页数:11
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