2013/05/27 by Rohit Singh, Singh, Rohit, Saurabh Kumar Srivastava +13
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic Properties of Alloys #Magnetic properties of thin films #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1305.6255
19 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2013/05/27 · arxiv created 2013/07/05 · arxiv updated 2013/07/08 · openalex created_date 2022/10/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work we demonstrate that the polycrystalline ribbons of (Ni48Co6)Mn26Al20 with B2 structure at room temperature show a magnetic behavior with competing magnetic exchange interactions leading to frozen disorders at low temperatures. It is established that by considering the presence of both antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic sublattices, we can explain the observed magnetic behavior including the metamagnetic transition observed in these samples. From the Arrott plots, the Néel temperature of (Ni48Co6)Mn26Al20 is deduced to be ~170 K and the broad ferro to para like magnetic phase transition is observed at ~ 200 K. Based on Néel theory, a cluster model is used to explain the presence of ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic clusters in the studied ribbons. Formation of ferromagnetic clusters can be understood in terms of positive exchange interactions among the Mn atoms that are neighboring to Co atoms which are located on the Ni sites.