Heusler Alloys: Structure, Properties and Applications

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Julia Coleman (Editor)

Series: Materials Science and Technologies
BISAC: TEC021000

Ternary Mn-based Heusler alloys often exhibit a ferromagnetic shape memory effect, which is best studied in Ni2MnGa, a prototype of Heusler alloys. Heusler Alloys: Structure, Properties and Applications opens by analyzing how by substituting nickel for iron, another Heusler alloy emerges, Fe2MnGa, with much richer structural and magnetic properties than Ni2MnGa and a large ferromagnetic shape memory performance in slightly off-stoichiometric compositions.

Next, the effects of atomic site disorder on the transport, magnetic, optical, and magneto-optical properties and electronic structures of metallic Cu2MnAl, Ni2MnGa and Ni2MnIn and half-metallic Co2CrAl, Co2MnGa and Co2CrGa Heusler alloy films are been investigated and the findings are discussed. The concluding study presents first-order reversal curve diagrams of the full-Heusler alloy nanoparticles synthesized by co-precipitation method, followed by thermal annealing at 700 °C under Ar/H2 atmosphere. Interacting single domain particles were dominantly detected from analysis.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Structural and Magnetic Stability of Fe-Mn-Ga Heusler Alloys
(J. Dubowik, K. Synoradzki, I. Gościańska and Y. V. Kudryavtsev, Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland, and others)

Chapter 2. The Effect of Atomic Site Disorder on the Physical Properties and Electronic Structures of Metallic and Half-Metallic Heusler Alloy Films
(Y. V. Kudryavtsev, Janusz Dubowik and YoungPak Lee, Physical Department, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine)

Chapter 3. First-Order Reversal Curve (FORC) Diagrams of the Full-Heusler Alloy Nanoparticles
(Sima Alikhanzadeh-Arani, Abdolali Ramazani and Mohammad Almasi-Kashi, Institute of Nano Science and Nano Technology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran)

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