Presentation
Influence of annealing and phase decomposition on the magnetostructural transitions in Ni50Mn39Sn11
Ames Laboratory Conference Papers, Posters, and Presentations
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Conference
53rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Publication Date
2-13-2009
Geolocation
(30.267153, -97.74306079999997)
Abstract
Magnetic and structural transitions in the Ni50Mn50−xSnx (x = 10–25) ferromagnetic shape memory alloys are currently of interest. As in Ni–Mn–Ga, these alloys feature high-temperature austenite and low-temperature martensite phases, where the magnetic state is strongly composition dependent. To study the role of chemical ordering in fine-tuning their magnetostructural properties, they were first annealed for 4 weeks/1223 K to achieve structural and compositional homogeneity, and were then further annealed for 1 week ( ∼ 150 K below the reported B2 to L21 transition) at 773 K to increase the degree of chemical ordering. For x = 11, this anneal resulted in a dramatic change in the magnetic ordering temperature. Following the 1223 K anneal, the sample exhibited ferromagnetic ordering at 140 K. After the 773 K anneal, the ferromagnetic transition is at 350 K, a characteristic of the ferromagnetic austenite phase with 15
Copyright Owner
American Institute of Physics
Copyright Date
2009
Language
en
Citation Information
William M. Yuhasz, Deborah L. Schlagel, Qingfeng Xing, Kevin W. Dennis, et al.. "Influence of annealing and phase decomposition on the magnetostructural transitions in Ni50Mn39Sn11" Austin, TX(2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_lograsso/129/
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The following article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics 105 (2009): 07A921 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3067855.