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Magnetic and Transformation Properties of Ni2MnGa Combinatorically Substituted With 5 atom.% of Transition Elements From Cr to Cu – Experimental Insight
Heczko, O.; Rameš, M.; Kopecký, V.; Veřtát, P.; Varga, M.; Straka, L. Magnetic and Transformation Properties of Ni2MnGa Combinatorically Substituted with 5 at.% of Transition Elements from Cr to Cu – Experimental Insight. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023, 171510, doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171510.
Heczko, O.; Rameš, M.; Kopecký, V.; Veřtát, P.; Varga, M.; Straka, L. Magnetic and Transformation Properties of Ni2MnGa Combinatorically Substituted with 5 at.% of Transition Elements from Cr to Cu – Experimental Insight. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023, 171510, doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171510.
Heczko, O.; Rameš, M.; Kopecký, V.; Veřtát, P.; Varga, M.; Straka, L. Magnetic and Transformation Properties of Ni2MnGa Combinatorically Substituted with 5 at.% of Transition Elements from Cr to Cu – Experimental Insight. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023, 171510, doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171510.
Heczko, O.; Rameš, M.; Kopecký, V.; Veřtát, P.; Varga, M.; Straka, L. Magnetic and Transformation Properties of Ni2MnGa Combinatorically Substituted with 5 at.% of Transition Elements from Cr to Cu – Experimental Insight. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023, 171510, doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171510.
Abstract
Heusler Ni-Mn-Ga alloys with martensitic transformation being multiferroic materials are touted for magneto- and multi-caloric effect (MCE) and moreover, they exhibit magnetic shape memory (MSM) phenomena. MCE benefits from high saturation magnetization and also large variability and sensitivity of transformation temperatures on alloying. In contrast, MSM phenomena are limited by low temperatures of both ferromagnetic and ferroelastic transformations. In an attempt to increase the transformation temperatures and to understand the physical fundamentals beyond transformation variations and magnetic ordering, we experimentally investigate the magnetic and transformation properties in Ni2MnGa alloyed with transitional elements spanning from Cr to Cu. These elements are consecutively substituted on Ni, Mn, and Ga sites, to establish the effect of positional substitution and elemental evolution. The elemental dependence of saturation magnetization, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, Curie temperature, and martensitic transformation temperatures are compared with (non-)stoichiometric Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler compounds. The observed behavior is complex and there are no clear trends of transformation temperatures as a function of the number of valence (non-bonding) electrons per atom, however, the saturation magnetization at 10K and Curie temperature seems to follow the Pauli-Slater curve. Obtained results can serve as useful rectification for the theoretical prediction of new Ni-Mn-Ga-X Heusler alloys.
Keywords
magnetic shape memory; transitional elements alloying; Ni2MnGa; Heusler alloys; Pauli-Slater curve
Subject
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics
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