Structural and magnetic states of magnetostrictive alloys Fe3Me, Me = Al, Ga, Ge in a wide temperature range
- Authors: Balagurov A.M.1,2,3, Golovin I.S.1,2, Yerzhanov B.1,4,5, Kalugin K.V.1,3, Sumnikov S.V.1, Chernyshov D.Y.6
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Affiliations:
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- National Research Technological University MISiS
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Kazan Federal Universit
- Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- SNBL at ESRF
- Issue: Vol 126, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 69-86
- Section: СТРУКТУРА, ФАЗОВЫЕ ПРЕВРАЩЕНИЯ И ДИФФУЗИЯ
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0015-3230/article/view/288555
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0015323025010083
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/BZPKQG
- ID: 288555
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Abstract
A series of diffraction experiments on a number of alloys similar in composition to stoichiometric Fe3Me with Me = Al, Ga, Ge were performed on X-ray, synchrotron, and neutron radiation sources. In the temperature range (20–1100 K), the structural, magnetic and microstructural characteristics of alloys were determined and their temperature evolution during continuous slow heating and subsequent cooling was studied. The information available in the literature on metastable and equilibrium states of alloys at elevated temperatures is clarified and specified, and their comparative analysis is performed. The identity of the temperature behavior of the alloys was observed at T < 100 K. The search for the tetragonal L60 phase, the formation of which in Fe–Ga alloys is considered as the main reason for the sharp increase in the magnetostriction constant, did not lead to a positive result.
About the authors
A. M. Balagurov
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; National Research Technological University MISiS; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980; Moscow, 119049; Moscow, 119991
I. S. Golovin
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; National Research Technological University MISiS
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980; Moscow, 119049
B. Yerzhanov
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; Kazan Federal Universit; Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980; Kazan, 420008; Almaty, 050032 Kazakhstan
K. V. Kalugin
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980; Moscow, 119991
S. V. Sumnikov
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980
D. Yu. Chernyshov
SNBL at ESRF
Email: kirivale@yandex.ru
France, 71 avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble
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