Extraordinary magnetoelasticity and lattice softening in bcc Fe-Ga alloys

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2003-05-15
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Clark, A.
Hathaway, K.
Wun-Fogle, M.
Restorff, J.
Lograsso, Thomas
Keppens, V.
Petculescu, G.
Taylor, R.
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Extraordinary magnetostrictive behavior has been observed in Fe-Ga alloys with concentrations of Ga between 4% and 27%. λ100 exhibits two peaks as a function of Ga content. At room temperature, λ100 reaches a maximum of 265 ppm near 19% Ga and 235 ppm near 27% Ga. For compositions between 19% and 27%, λ100 drops sharply to a minimum near 24% Ga and exhibits an anomalous temperature dependence, decreasing by as much as a factor of 2 at low temperatures. This unusual magnetostrictive behavior is interpreted on the basis of a single maximum in the magnetoelastic coupling ∣b1∣ of Fe with increasing amounts of nonmagnetic Ga, combined with a strongly temperature dependent elastic shear modulus (c11c12) which approaches zero near 27% Ga. λ111 is significantly smaller in magnitude than λ100 over this composition range, and has an abrupt change in sign from negative for low Ga concentrations to positive for a concentration of Ga near 21%.

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The following article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics 93 (2003): 8621 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1540130.

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