Published December 31, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Structural and magnetic study of nanostructured (Fe79Mn21)80Cu20 alloy synthesized by ball milling

  • 1. IFLP, CONICET, Departamento de Fisica, C.C. 67, University Nac. de La Plata, 1900 La Plata (Argentina)
  • 2. CAB-IB, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Bustillo 9500, 8400 S.C. de Bariloche (Argentina)

Description

We have obtained by high-energy ball milling of the powder elements, a nanostructured (Fe79Mn21)80Cu20 FCC with a grain size distribution of an average crystallite size of 8 nm. Moessbauer spectroscopy, AC-susceptibility and magnetization measurement results indicate that the FCC alloy displays two magnetic behaviors; a paramagnetic component that orders along over a wide temperature range below 220 K, and a minor antiferromagnetic fraction that is still ordered at room temperature. The average hyperfine field (Bhf=5.2 T) and the isomer shift (δ=0.07 mm/s) values at T=23 K show that Fe atoms are in a FCC structure that includes Mn and Cu atoms. In addition, we verified that presence of Cu stabilizes the FCC-Fe(Mn,Cu) phase

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2004.09.035;
PII
S0921-4526(04)00928-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
354
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 133-136
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
Magnetism, magnetic materials, and their applications
Acronym
Workshop on 'At the frontiers of condensed matter'
Dates
22-26 Jun 2004
Place
Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.