Origin of the anomalies and thermodynamic aspects in iron-nickel invar alloys

The thermodynamic properties of Fe-Ni Invar alloys are analyzed in terms of the theoretical results obtained in the itinerant electron model accompanying in the mixing of the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases with different atomic volumes. All the anomalies in Fe-Ni Invar alloys are explained by the effect of a large magnetovolume coupling and this large coupling is attributed to the magnetic transformation due to the changes in temperature, magnetic field and pressure. There is also an enhancement due to the magnetovoume coupling to the high-field susceptibility, compressibility and forced magnetostriction. The pressure dependence of T_c is also discussed.     

诱导磁场对Bi-Mn合金微观结构与磁性的影响

用x射线衍射和低温磁测量方法，系统研究了在外加诱导磁场下制备的Bi Mn合金的微观结构和磁性.结果表明，在外加诱导磁场下制备的Bi Mn wt6%合金呈现典型的双相结构和各向异性特征，MnBi相c轴沿外加诱导磁场方向取向排列.随外加诱导磁场的增大，剩余磁化强度Mr逐渐增大，这说明MnBi相的取向程度越来越好.发现MnBi相的自旋重取向温度TSR随外加诱导磁场的增大逐渐向高温区移动.对外加诱导磁场影响Bi Mn wt6%合金的微观结构和磁性以及该类材料磁各向异性能的物理机理进行了分析和讨论. 关键词： 磁场诱导 Bi Mn合金 MnBi相 定向排列     

Nanocrystalline iron-based alloys investigated by Mössbauer spectrometry

Nanocrystalline alloys exhibit great fundamental and technological interests because of their microstructural properties, and their excellent soft magnetic properties. ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectrometry is a well suitable technique to investigate Fe-based nanocrystalline alloys: its local probe behaviour permits to elucidate the nature of hyperfine interactions at different resonating iron nuclei and to distinguish their immediate atomic surroundings. We review on the recent Mössbauer developments performed on first FeCuMBSi and then FeCuBSi nanocrystalline alloys. From Mössbauer studies, one can estimate the crystalline (i.e., amorphous) fraction, the Si-content in Fe--Si nanocrystalline grains emerging from amorphous alloys of the first series, the temperature dependence of magnetic behaviours of both crystalline and amorphous phases; finally, we present a novel fitting procedure applied to FeCuBSi nanocrystalline alloys which result from bcc-Fe crystalline grains embedded in an amorphous matrix. In this case, the hyperfine structure is able to model the intergranular phase.     

粗晶和纳米晶Sm_3Co合金的制备及其性能研究

本文针对Sm3Co粗晶和纳米晶合金材料的制备和基础性能进行了研究.采用磁悬浮熔炼技术多次精炼制备出Sm3Co粗晶合金.以此为母材,利用高能球磨非晶化和放电等离子烧结致密化并同步晶化的技术路线,制备出平均晶粒尺寸为8 nm的超细纳米晶Sm3Co合金块体材料.构建了Sm3Co纳米晶合金的晶体结构模型,并结合其显微组织的表征,分析了Sm3Co纳米晶合金的磁性能和力学性能,并与粗晶合金进行了比较粗晶Sm3Co合金不具有硬磁特性,而同种成分的纳米晶合金则表现出一定的硬磁特性.纳米晶Sm3Co合金的显微硬度和弹性模量分别达到4.87 GPa和63.7 GPa,比粗晶合金增大约8.7%和13.3%.本文研究结果为Sm-Co体系合金的基础性能及其纳米尺度效应提供了系统的参考依据.     

Nb含量对FeSiBCuNb系铁基纳米晶合金结构和磁学性能的影响

为模拟Nb含量对FeSiBCuNb系铁基纳米晶合金结构和磁学性能的影响,采用Amorphous模块构建了Fe_88-xSi₉B₂CuNb_x(x=1,3,5,7)的硬球密剁模型,通过分子动力学方法进行弛豫,淬火以及退火处理,得到了Fe_88-xSi₉B₂CuNb_x(x=1,3,5,7)铁基纳米晶合金结构.基于第一性原理的计算方法,分析了不同Nb含量的铁基纳米晶合金的晶体结构和磁学性能.结果表明:随着Nb含量的增加,体系的晶格常数和体积都有所增大,导电性减小,磁矩不断减小,并且Fe的3d轨道是体系磁矩的主要贡献者,Nb元素对体系非晶化的形成有一定的作用.     

Effect of thermal fluctuations on magnetic phase separation and on the parameters of spin-spiral waves

Effects of temperature on magnetic phase separation and on the parameters of spin-spiral waves are studied. The study is performed using the two-dimensional single-band Hubbard model and the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. Both commensurate (antiferromagnetic, ferromagnetic) and incommensurate (spiral) magnetic phases are considered. The problem is solved using the static approximation with allowance for transverse fluctuations of the magnetic moment. It is shown that the temperature significantly affects the collinear and spiral magnetic phases. With an increase in the temperature, the phase-separation region near the half-filling is sufficiently reduced and substituted by the antiferromagnetic phase. The results are used for the interpretation of the magnetic properties of cuprates.     

Monte Carlo simulation of magnetic phase transitions in amorphous alloys of the Re-Tb system

The magnetic properties of amorphous alloys of the Re-Tb system and pure amorphous terbium have been investigated by the Monte Carlo method within the Heisenberg model. The temperature dependences of the spontaneous magnetization and magnetic susceptibility have been constructed for different ratios of the anisotropy constant to the exchange constant, D/J. The minimum value of D/J at which the spin-glass transition occurs is determined. The magnetic phase diagram of amorphous Re-Tb alloys, obtained by the simulation, is in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.     

Anisotropies in soft magnetic nanocrystalline alloys

The article reviews and updates the understanding of the soft magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Fe-based alloys. In optimized compositions the random magneto-crystalline anisotropy of the structural phases is largely averaged out. The soft magnetic properties are then controlled by magneto-elastic and induced anisotropies which are uniform on a scale much larger than the exchange length. But unlike to the case of soft magnetic amorphous alloys, there is still a competition between the random and the more uniform anisotropy contributions. The experimental findings are complemented by theoretical results.     

纳米软磁合金的双相无规磁各向异性模型

按照Ａｌｂｅｎ非晶无规磁各向异性的处理方法，考虑纳米软磁合金的双相组织结构的特点，提出了双相无规磁各向异性模型，得到了纳米软磁合金的有效磁各向异性与显微结构参数及铁磁相磁特性参数间的关系，探讨了磁性与有效磁各向异性的关系．用Ｆｅ_７３.５Ｃｕ_１.０Ｎｂ_３.０Ｓｉ_１３.５Ｂ_９.０纳米软磁合金的Ｘ射线衍射结构分析及磁测量结果进行了分析及验证，为上述研究提供了有力的支持 关键词：     

Effect of electric current on the magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of amorphous ferromagnetic alloys

The magnetic and magnetoelastic parameters of Fe₆₄Co₂₁B₁₅ and Fe_81.5B_13.5Si₃C₂ amorphous ferromagnetic alloys treated by direct electric current in air are studied as functions of the applied magnetic field and current density. The samples of the alloy have the form of narrow strips with different lengths. It is found that the magnetoelastic parameters of the dc-treated alloys depend on the magnetic field in a qualitatively different way. From the behavior of the magnetic and magnetoelastic parameters of the alloys in the magnetic field a model of magnetization nonuniform distribution in amorphous ferromagnetic alloys subjected to dc treatment is proposed.     

Phase field simulation of spinodal decomposition under external magnetic field

A computational model was developed to simulate the spinodal decomposition process of ferromagnetic alloys under an external magnetic field. In this model, the temporal evolution of the modulated structure was described by a phase field method, and the magnetic configuration was solved by using a micromagnetic method. The spinodal decomposition and coarsening processes of a single magnetic particle and an A-B hypothetical system under an external magnetic field were simulated using the proposed model. The simulation results show that the precipitated particles were elongated along the direction of the external magnetic field. The dependence of the modulated structure of an A-B hypothetic system on external magnetic field is much more sensitive than that of the single particle structure. The simulation results also demonstrate that the modulation of the external magnetic field is effective even if the spinodal decomposition has been completed and a stable modulated structure was formed.     

Magnetic properties and structure of electrodeposited Zn-Co alloys granular thin films

We present several results concerning the preparation by means of electrolysis and characterization of Zn-Co alloys thin films. Films of Zn, Co and Zn-Co with various compositions (8-16 at% Co) were prepared in sulfate baths, using potentiostatic control, envisaging applications in the domain of corrosion resistant magnetic sensors. The effects of applied voltage on the magnetic properties, microstructure and phase content of the electrodeposited Zn-Co films were investigated. The applied voltage significantly influenced the film composition and their magnetic properties. These films, when deposited at an applied voltage of 4.5 V exhibited multiphase behavior due to the inclusion of new phases (cobalt hydroxide), whereas at 3.0 V, only Zn-Co alloys were deposited. The structure and morphology of the samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM).     

Effect of isothermal treatments on the magnetic behavior of nanocrystalline Cu–Ni–Fe alloy prepared by mechanical alloying

The present study concerns magnetic behavior of nanocrystalline Cu–Ni, Cu–Fe and Cu–Ni–Fe alloys prepared by mechanical alloying. It has been found that the magnetic properties e.g. H_c, M_r and M_s of the nanocrystalline alloys were significantly influenced by the changes in microstructural constituents, grain size and evolution of phases. Microstructural changes in the alloys have been effected by carrying out isothermal treatments on the mechanically alloyed products in the temperature range of 450–650 °C. Phase evolution in the samples after the isothermal treatments were identified and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) techniques and the results were correlated with the magnetic properties of the alloys.     

Invariant exchange perturbation theory for multicenter systems and its application to the calculation of magnetic chains in manganites

The formalism of exchange perturbation theory is presented with regard to the general principles of constructing an antisymmetric vector with the use of the Young diagrams and tableaux in which the coordinate and spin parts are not separated. The form of the energy and wave function corrections coincides with earlier obtained expressions, which are reduced in the present paper to a simpler form of a symmetry-adapted perturbation operator, which preserves all intercenter exchange contributions. The exchange perturbation theory (EPT) formalism itself is presented in the standard form of invariant perturbation theory that takes into account intercenter electron permutations between overlapping nonorthogonal states. As an example of application of the formalism of invariant perturbation theory, we consider the magnetic properties of perovskite manganites La_1/3Ca_2/3MnO₃ that are associated with the charge and spin ordering in magnetic chains of manganese. We try to interpret the experimental results obtained from the study of the effect of doping the above alloys by the model of superexchange interaction in manganite chains that is constructed on the basis of the exchange perturbation theory (EPT) formalism. The model proposed makes it possible to carry out a quantitative analysis of the effect of substitution of manganese atoms by doping elements with different electron configurations on the electronic structure and short-range order in a magnetic chain of manganites.     

BOF endpoint prediction based on the flame radiation by hybrid SVC and SVR modeling

A new non-contact method for predicting the endpoint carbon content of different kinds of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) vessel sizes is presented in this paper. The proposed model is based on the spectral distribution of the flame at the vessel mouth with support vector machine (SVM). Two models are constructed with SVM in this paper: a SVC model is used to classify the whole blowing phases based on the mechanism analysis, and an ?-SVR model is constructed to map the flame spectrum variation into the state of the molten steel in the iron bath. The simulation results on industrial datasets show that the proposed method can offer an accurate as well as convenient way to improve the performance of BOF endpoint control compared with current methods of endpoint carbon content prediction.     

Structure, properties and applications of thin Fe--Al layers

Fe-Al alloys show interesting physical properties and offer some special industrial applications. There are phase transitions combined with changes in the magnetic behaviour. Another interesting fact is the excellent oxidation and corrosion resistance of iron aluminides even at high temperatures. Thin Fe-Al layers can be produced in different ways. Ion beam methods are able to produce surface layers on bulk material modifying the initial properties completely. The properties depend strongly on the phase structure induced by the preparation process. 57-Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, and in the case of surface layers conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy, is very suitable to identify this phase structure. In the present work, it is described for Al implanted Fe layers. Depending on implantation dose and energy both magnetic and non-magnetic phases can be produced. Due to the inhomogeneous distribution of Al in the Fe target a layer structure of different phases can be created. Moreover, due to double implantation an Fe-Si-Al alloy can be prepared.     

Large exchange bias after zero-field cooling from an unmagnetized state

Exchange bias (EB) is usually observed in systems with an interface between different magnetic phases after field cooling. Here we report an unusual phenomenon in which a large EB can be observed in Ni-Mn-In bulk alloys after zero-field cooling from an unmagnetized state. We propose that this is related to the newly formed interface between different magnetic phases during the initial magnetization process. The magnetic unidirectional anisotropy, which is the origin of the EB effect, can be created isothermally below the blocking temperature.     

纳米超微晶Fe73.5Cu1Mo3Si13.5B9合金显微结构和磁性的研究

对纳米晶Fe_73.5Cu₁Mo₃Si_13.5B₉合金的原始制备态和各退火态样品进行了室温Mossbauer谱研究,结果表明晶化态的合金存在α-Fe(Si)微晶相和晶界的非晶相。晶相和非晶相内场和面积随退火温度的变化是退火时Cu,Mo,B等成分的扩散和在各相中的再分配引起的。最佳磁性能对应非晶相中的铁量占合金铁总量的30％左右,超微晶合金的双相无规各向异性模型表明,一定量的非晶相对保持纳米晶优异的软 关键词：