Published August 25, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

A new type of FCT martensite phase in single-crystalline Fe3Pt Invar alloy

  • 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871 (Japan)
  • 2. High-Field Laboratory for Superconducting Materials, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Sendai Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577 (Japan)

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Highlights: · TEM observations at room temperature reveal that the specimen is a single phase of L12-type structure. · The spontaneous magnetization and magnetic susceptibility curves of Fe3Pt with S = 0.88 have bend points at 60 K. · XRD measurements reveal that this alloy exhibits a martensitic transformation to FCT and the transformation temperature is 60 K. · The tetragonality c/a is larger than unity in the FCT martensite. · This tetragonality is in contrast to the tetragonality c/a < 1generally observed in the FCT martensite with S < 0.8. - Abstract: Martensitic transformation in a highly ordered Fe3Pt has been investigated by magnetization and X-ray diffraction measurements. We confirmed that a new type of face-centered tetragonal (FCT) martensite phase appears below 60 K in Fe3Pt with a degree of order S = 0.88. The tetragonality c/a gradually increases with decreasing temperature, and is approximately 1.005 at 10 K. This is in contrast to the tetragonality c/a < 1 generally observed in the FCT martensite with a degree of order less than 0.8. The spontaneous magnetization increases in association with the transformation.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2011.06.035

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2011.06.035;
PII
S0925-8388(11)01317-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
509
Journal Issue
34
Journal Page Range
p. 8530-8533
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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