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- Title
Structure and Magnetic Properties of Mechanosynthesized Nanocrystalline Fe 2 CrSi Heusler Alloy.
- Authors
Jartych, Elżbieta; Jaskółowska, Paulina; Oleszak, Dariusz; Pękała, Marek
- Abstract
Heusler alloys constitute an interesting group of materials with wide applications. The purpose of the present study was to use the mechanical alloying method to synthesize Fe2CrSi Heusler alloy and learn about its structure and magnetic properties. Pure metal elements were ground for various periods of time in a planetary ball mill, and the process of alloy formation was monitored using X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. It was found that after 20 h of milling, the disordered BCC solid solution was formed, with an average crystallite size ~11 nm. After thermal treatment, the desired Fe2CrSi Heusler alloy was obtained, with a small amount of secondary phases. Detailed XRD analysis showed the coexistence of two varieties of Heusler phase, namely Fm-3m and Pm-3n. The main result of this work is the detection of the hyperfine magnetic field distribution using Mössbauer spectroscopy. The occurrence of this distribution proves atomic disorder in the crystalline structure of the obtained Heusler alloy. Macroscopic magnetic measurements revealed soft magnetic properties of the alloy, with a magnetic moment of ~2.3 μB/f.u., only slightly larger than the theoretically predicted value.
- Subjects
HEUSLER alloys; MAGNETIC structure; MAGNETIC properties; MAGNETIC measurements; MECHANICAL alloying; MOSSBAUER spectroscopy; HYPERFINE interactions; MAGNETIC alloys
- Publication
Nanomaterials (2079-4991), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 23, p3024
- ISSN
2079-4991
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nano13233024