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Title: Structural origin for the local strong anisotropy in melt-spun Fe-Ga-Tb: Tetragonal nanoparticles

Abstract

Soluting rare earth atoms Tb or Dy into body centered cubic (BCC) Fe-Ga through rapid cooling significantly enhances the magnetostriction due to strong localized magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Origin of the local strong anisotropy, however, awaits comprehensive microstructural investigation. In this letter, formation of tetragonal nanoparticles with c/a ∼ 0.979 has been found in the giant magnetostrictive ribbons Fe{sub 82.89}Ga{sub 16.88}Tb{sub 0.23} due to local symmetry breaking of the BCC lattice using high resolution transmission electronic microscopy. First principal calculations suggest that random replacement of Tb atoms for Fe or Ga in the ordered DO{sub 3} superlattice is beneficial in the formation of such tetragonal symmetry. Exchange couplings between the nearest Tb-Fe or Tb-Tb pairs of the tetragonal nanoparticles might generate strong localized magnetocrystalline anisotropy, leading to extraordinary magnetostriction enhancement.

Authors:
 [1]; ; ; ;  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Novel Materials for Information Technology of Zhejiang Province, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China)
  2. Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049 (China)
  3. College of Materials Science and Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018 (China)
  4. Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047 (Japan)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22395756
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ANISOTROPY; BCC LATTICES; COOLING; DYSPROSIUM; GALLIUM; IRON; MAGNETOSTRICTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLES; RANDOMNESS; SOLUTES; SUPERLATTICES; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TERBIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Citation Formats

Ma, Tianyu, Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Hu, Shanshan, Bai, Guohua, Yan, Mi, Lu, Yunhao, Li, Huiying, Peng, Xiaoling, Ren, Xiaobing, and Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049. Structural origin for the local strong anisotropy in melt-spun Fe-Ga-Tb: Tetragonal nanoparticles. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4915308.
Ma, Tianyu, Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Hu, Shanshan, Bai, Guohua, Yan, Mi, Lu, Yunhao, Li, Huiying, Peng, Xiaoling, Ren, Xiaobing, & Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049. Structural origin for the local strong anisotropy in melt-spun Fe-Ga-Tb: Tetragonal nanoparticles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4915308
Ma, Tianyu, Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Hu, Shanshan, Bai, Guohua, Yan, Mi, Lu, Yunhao, Li, Huiying, Peng, Xiaoling, Ren, Xiaobing, and Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049. 2015. "Structural origin for the local strong anisotropy in melt-spun Fe-Ga-Tb: Tetragonal nanoparticles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4915308.
@article{osti_22395756,
title = {Structural origin for the local strong anisotropy in melt-spun Fe-Ga-Tb: Tetragonal nanoparticles},
author = {Ma, Tianyu and Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047 and Hu, Shanshan and Bai, Guohua and Yan, Mi and Lu, Yunhao and Li, Huiying and Peng, Xiaoling and Ren, Xiaobing and Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049},
abstractNote = {Soluting rare earth atoms Tb or Dy into body centered cubic (BCC) Fe-Ga through rapid cooling significantly enhances the magnetostriction due to strong localized magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Origin of the local strong anisotropy, however, awaits comprehensive microstructural investigation. In this letter, formation of tetragonal nanoparticles with c/a ∼ 0.979 has been found in the giant magnetostrictive ribbons Fe{sub 82.89}Ga{sub 16.88}Tb{sub 0.23} due to local symmetry breaking of the BCC lattice using high resolution transmission electronic microscopy. First principal calculations suggest that random replacement of Tb atoms for Fe or Ga in the ordered DO{sub 3} superlattice is beneficial in the formation of such tetragonal symmetry. Exchange couplings between the nearest Tb-Fe or Tb-Tb pairs of the tetragonal nanoparticles might generate strong localized magnetocrystalline anisotropy, leading to extraordinary magnetostriction enhancement.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4915308},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22395756}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 11,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}