Tuning the magnetic properties of the CrMnFeCoNi Cantor alloy

Elmslie, Timothy A.; Startt, Jacob Kyle; Yang, Yang; Soto-Medina, Sujeily; Zappala, Emma; Meisel, Mark W.; Manuel, Michele V.; Frandsen, Benjamin A.; Dingreville, Rémi Philippe Michel; Hamlin, James J.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.108.094437

Tuning the magnetic properties of the CrMnFeCoNi Cantor alloy

Journal Article · Wed Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.108.094437· OSTI ID:2311384

Elmslie, Timothy A. ^[1]; ^[2]; Yang, Yang ^[1]; Soto-Medina, Sujeily ^[1]; ^[3]; ^[1]; Manuel, Michele V. ^[1]; ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[1]

Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (United States)

Magnetic properties of more than 20 Cantor alloy samples of varying composition were investigated over a temperature range of 5 K to 300 K and in fields of up to 70 kOe using magnetometry and muon spin relaxation. Two transitions are identified: a spin-glass-like transition that appears between 55K and 190K, depending on composition, and a ferrimagnetic transition that occurs at approximately 43K in multiple samples with widely varying compositions. The magnetic signatures at 43K are remarkably insensitive to chemical composition. A modified Curie-Weiss model was used to fit the susceptibility data and to extract the net effective magnetic moment for each sample. The resulting values for the net effective moment were either diminished with increasing Cr or Mn concentrations or enhanced with decreasing Fe, Co, or Ni concentrations. Beyond a sufficiently large effective moment, the magnetic ground state transitions from ferrimagnetism to ferromagnetism. The effective magnetic moments, together with the corresponding compositions, are used in a global linear regression analysis to extract element-specific effective magnetic moments, which are compared to the values obtained by ab initio based density functional theory calculations. Finally, these moments provide the information necessary to controllably tune the magnetic properties of Cantor alloy variants.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 2311384

Report Number(s):: SAND--2023-13726J

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 108; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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