Correlation between magnetic and crystal structural sublattices in palladium-doped FeRh alloys: Analysis of the metamagnetic phase transition driving forces

FeRh alloys doped with the third element exhibit a change in the lattice and magnetic subsystems, which are manifested in antiferromagnetic- ferromagnetic (AFM-FM) first-order phase transition temperature, the shrinkage of the temperate hysteresis under transition, and the reduction of the saturation magnetization. All aforementioned parameters are crucial for practical applications. To control them it is quite important to determine the driving forces of the metamagnetic transition and its origins. In this manuscript ab initio calculations and experimental studies results are presented, which demonstrate the correlation between the structural and magnetic properties of the Fe50Rh50−xPdx alloys. The qualitative analysis of the metamagnetic phase transition driving forces in palladium-doped FeRh alloys was performed to determine their contribution to the evolution of magnetic and lattice subsystems. In addition, the impact of the impurities phases together with its magnetic behavior on the AFM-FM phase transition was considered.Fil: Komlev, Aleksei S.. Lomonosov Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Karpenkov, Dmitriy Y.. National University of Science and Technology; Rusia. Lomonosov Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Gimaev, Radel R.. Lomonosov Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Chirkova, Alisa. Institute for Materials Science; AlemaniaFil: Akiyama, Ayaka. Hirosaki University; JapónFil: Miyanaga, Takafumi. Hirosaki University; JapónFil: Hupalo, Marcio Ferreira. Universidade Estadual do Ponta Grossa; BrasilFil: Aguiar, D.J.M.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; BrasilFil: Carvalho, Alexandre Magnus G.. Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Brasil. Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo; BrasilFil: Jiménez, María Julia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Física del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Física del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Cabeza, Gabriela Fernanda. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Física del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Física del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Zverev, Vladimir I.. Lomonosov Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Perov, Nikolai S.. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Rusi

Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Heavy Lanthanides (Gd, Tb, Dy, Er, Ho, Tm)

Rare earth metals (REM) occupy a special and important place in our lives. This became especially noticeable during the rapid development of industry in the industrial era of the twentieth century. The tendency of development of the rare-earth metals market certainly remains in the XXI century. According to experts estimates the industry demand for chemical compounds based on them will tend to grow during the nearest years until it reaches the market balance. At the same time, the practical use of high-purity rare-earth metals requires the most accurate understanding of the physical properties of metals, especially magnetic ones. Despite a certain decline in interest in the study of high-purity REM single crystals during the last decade, a number of scientific groups (Ames Lab, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science Russian Academy of Science (RAS)) are still conducting high-purity studies on high-purity metal samples. The present article is a combination of a review work covering the analysis of the main works devoted to the study of heavy REMs from gadolinium to thulium, as well as original results obtained at MSU. The paper considers the electronic properties of metals in terms of calculating the density of states, analyzes the regularities of the magnetic phase diagrams of metals, gives the original dependences of the Neel temperature and tricritical temperatures for Gd, Tb, Dy, Er, Ho, Tm, and also introduces a phenomenological parameter that would serve as an indicator of the phase transformation in heavy REMs

Electronic and thermoelectric properties of FeRh Pd-doped alloys: Ab initio study

In this work, spin polarized total energy calculations were carried out to investigate the structural, energetic, magnetic and thermoelectric properties of Fe50Rh50-xPdx (x = 1.9, 3.7, 5.6, 6.3, 7.4, 9.3, 12.5, 18.8 and 25.0) and to compare with previous results of two-component undoped alloy. Some electronic characteristics were evaluated computing the local density of orbital states (LDOS). The corresponding magnetic moments per atom as well as thermal and electrical conductivity were obtained to complete the analysis. We have found that in the range of Pd concentrations studied, the cell parameter for the FM phase increases slightly as × increases with increasing cell volume (0.2–1.9%). The structures are B2 type. As × increases the AFM phase is more stable than the FM. Concerning the AFM phase, the tetragonal distortion along the z-axis is accompanied by a slight stabilization of the total energy with respect to the cubic phase. The cell volume of the AFM phase is less than that corresponding to the FM phase (varying ~ 0.4 considering the cubic and ~ 0.9 considering the tetragonal). The transition temperature was estimated and the trend agrees with the experimental evidence that the increase of Pd content shifts the transition temperature at lower temperatures. From the DOS (EF) we have also estimated the entropy change (ΔSe) obtaining values ranging from 1 to 9 J/molK depending on the Pd content. Another consequence of the magnetic transition is the drop of the resistivity (ρ) in the FM phase compared to the AFM state in the studied range from 100 K to 300 K. These results agree with literature experimental data.Fil: Jiménez, María Julia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Física del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Física del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Komlev, Aleksei S.. Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Gimaev, Radel R.. Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Zverev, Vladimir I.. Moscow State University; RusiaFil: Cabeza, Gabriela Fernanda. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Física del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Física del Sur; Argentin

Peculiarities of the phase transformation dynamics in bulk FeRh based alloys from magnetic and structural measurements

We analyze coexistence of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic phases in bulk iron-rhodium and its alloys with palladium, Fe50,4Rh49,6, Fe49,7Rh47,4Pd2,9 and Fe48,3Rh46,8Pd4,9, using neutron diffraction, magnetization and scanning Hall probe imaging. Temperature dependencies of the lattice parameters, AFM and FM phase weight fractions, and Fe magnetic moment values were obtained on cooling and heating across the AFM-FM transition. Substantial thermomagnetic hysteresis for the phases’ weight fractions and a relatively narrow one for the unit cell volume has been observed on cooling-heating. A clear dependence of hysteretic behavior on Pd concentration has been traced. Additional direct magnetic measurements of the spatial distribution of the phase transition are acquired using scanning Hall probe microscopy, which reveals the length scale of the phase coexistence and the spatial progression of the transition in the presence of external magnetic field. Also, the magnetic phase diagram has been constructed for a series of Pd-doped FeRh alloys.This is a manuscript of an article published as Zverev, Vladimir I., Radel R. Gimaev, Takafumi Miyanaga, Artem A. Vaulin, Andrei F. Gubkin, Boris B. Kovalev, Antonio M. dos Santos, Edmund Lovell, Lesley F. Cohen, and Nikolai A. Zarkevich. "Peculiarities of the phase transformation dynamics in bulk FeRh based alloys from magnetic and structural measurements." Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 522 (2021): 167560. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2020.167560 Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Posted with permission