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Published on: October 5, 2013
Large magnetovolume effects due to transition from the ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic state in Hf0.825Ta0.175Fe2
L V B Diop1, M Amara, O Isnard
1Institut Néel, CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, BP 166, F-38042 Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
Intrinsic magnetic properties and magnetovolume effects have been investigated for the Hf0.825Ta0.175Fe2 itinerant-electron system, which exhibits a temperature-induced first-order transition from the ferromagnetic (FM) to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state. The spontaneous volume magnetostriction contraction due to this transition from the high-volume FM state to the low-volume AFM state is about 0.66%. Applying a magnetic field increases significantly the FM-AFM transition temperature T(FM-AFM), with a rate of 7.2 K T(-1). At temperatures T > T(FM-AFM) a first-order metamagnetic transition between the AFM and FM states has been observed from isothermal magnetization curves, a result attributed to the itinerant-electron character of the Fe magnetism. This AFM-FM transition is accompanied by a huge field-induced volume magnetostriction. The change in ΔV/V due to the AFM-FM transition is about 0.75%.
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