Structure and Phase Transformation in the Giant Magnetostriction Laves-Phase SmFe2

Liu, Xiaonan; Lin, Kun; Gao, Qilong; Zhu, He; Li, Qiang; Cao, Yili; Liu, Zhanning; You, Li; Chen, Jun; Ren, Yang; Huang, Rongjin; Lapidus, Saul H.; Xing, Xianran

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02525

Title: Structure and Phase Transformation in the Giant Magnetostriction Laves-Phase SmFe₂

Journal Article · Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Inorganic Chemistry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02525· OSTI ID:1422564

Liu, Xiaonan ^[1];

^[1]; Gao, Qilong ^[1]; Zhu, He ^[1]; Li, Qiang ^[1]; Cao, Yili ^[1]; Liu, Zhanning ^[1]; You, Li ^[2];

^[1]; Ren, Yang ^[3]; Huang, Rongjin ^[4]; Lapidus, Saul H. ^[3];

^[1]

Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China). Dept. of Physical Chemistry
Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China). State Key Lab. for Advanced Metals and Materials
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). X-Ray Science Division
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Key Lab. of Cryogenics, Technical Inst. of Physics and Chemistry

As one class of the most important intermetallic compounds, the binary Laves-phase is well-known for their abundant magnetic properties. Samarium-iron alloy system, SmFe₂, is a prototypical Laves compound that shows strong negative magnetostriction but relatively weak magnetocrystalline anisotropy. SmFe₂ has been identified as a cubic Fd$$ \overline{3}\ $$m structure at room temperature, however, the cubic symmetry does not match the spontaneous magnetization along the [111]_cubic direction. Here we studied the crystal structure of SmFe₂ by high-resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray total scattering methods. SmFe₂ is found to adopt a centrosymmetric trigonal R$$ \overline{3}\ $$m structure at room temperature, which transforms to an orthorhombic Imma structure at 200 K. This transition is in agreement with the changes of easy magnetization direction from [111]_cubic to [110]_cubic direction, and is further evidenced by the inflexion of thermal expansion behavior, the sharp decline of the magnetic susceptibility in the FC-ZFC curve, and the anomaly in the specific heat capacity measurement. Lastly, the revised structure and phase transformation of SmFe₂ could be useful to understand the magnetostriction and related physical properties of other RM₂-type pseudo-cubic Laves-phase intermetallic compounds.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 21590793; 21231001; 21701008; FRF-TP-17-038A1

OSTI ID:: 1422564

Journal Information:: Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 57, Issue 2; ISSN 0020-1669

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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