V. A. Kazantsev

Effect of severe plastic deformation by torsion on the properties and structure of the Ni54Mn21Ga25 and Ni54Mn20Fe1Ga25 alloys

The effect of one-percent substitution of iron for manganese on the physical (magnetic, electrical, thermal, and galvanomagnetic) properties and the crystal structure of the Ni54Mn21Ga25 alloy has been investigated. It has been demonstrated that the deviation of the alloy composition from the stoichiometric composition Ni50Mn25Ga25 leads to the formation of a mixed ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic state. The atomic disordering and nanostructuring of the alloys under investigation due to the severe plastic deformation by torsion in Bridgman anvils to sizes of 10–20 nm result in the suppression of reversible magnetically controlled shape memory effects.

Martensitic and Magnetic Transformations in Ni-Mn-In Alloys

Dilatometry, magnetometry, and optical metallography were used to study structural and magnetic transformations in Ni-Mn-In alloys of different compositions. Temperatures of structural and magnetic transformations of the Ni47 − xMn42 + xIn11 alloys (with x = 0–2) were determined. It is shown that, as the valence electron concentration decreases, the martensitic transformation temperature decreases. Some of the Ni-Mn-In alloys exhibit a ferromagnetic transformation in both the initial austenite and in the arising martensite.

Choice of copper-based alloys for ribbon substrates with a sharp cube texture

It has been shown that, in some copper-based alloys subjected to cold deformation by rolling to 98.6–99% followed by recrystallization annealing, a sharp cube texture can be produced. Optimum conditions of annealing have been determined, which make it possible to produce a sharp biaxial texture in Cu-Ni, Cu-Fe, and Cu-Cr alloys with the fraction of cube grains of more than 95%; this opens a possibility of using thin ribbons made of these alloys as substrates for multilayer film compositions, in particular when developing second-generation high-temperature superconductors.

Creation of ternary Ni-Cr-W alloys with a sharp cube texture and a curie temperature below 77 K to produce epitaxial substrates for superconducting compositions

The texture, structure, and magnetic and mechanical properties of thin tape substrates fabricated of nickel alloys with chromium and tungsten have been investigated. It has been shown that in Ni89.6Cr8.6W1.8 and Ni89.6Cr7.8W2.6 alloys a sharp cube texture can be formed, which is stable up to high annealing temperatures. In the Ni89.2Cr7.2W3.6 alloy, other orientations are present along with a cube component. The possibility of obtaining a sharp cube texture after primary recrystallization is connected with the quantitative relationship between the texture components in a cold-rolled tape, which is determined by the method of orientation-distribution functions. The alloys studied are paramagnetic at 77 K.

Effect of severe plastic deformation on the structure and properties of the Ni2.16Mn0.84Ga alloy

The effect of severe plastic deformation by torsion (high-pressure torsion or HPT) on the crystalline structure and behavior of electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power, thermal expansion, and magnetic properties of the rapidly quenched Ni2.16Mn0.84Ga alloy has been investigated. It has been shown that after HPT treatment of the rapidly quenched submicrocrystalline alloy, a mixture of amorphous and nanocrystalline phases is formed. Electrical properties of the alloy have been explained in terms of the Mott two-band model. Specific features of the magnetic properties of the alloy are related to the coexistence of ferro-and antiferromagnetic interactions in an atomically disordered state of the alloy.

Effect of recrystallization annealing on the formation of a perfect cube texture in FCC nickel alloys

Based on the data of X-ray diffraction, dilatometry, transmission electron microscopy, and electron backscatter diffraction, the optimum regimes of heat treatment of cold-rolled (to 98.5–99%) tapes made of binary Ni-W, Ni-Cr, Ni-Fe and ternary tungsten-containing Ni-Pd-W and Ni-Cr-W alloys that are widely utilized in the world practice for the fabrication of high-temperature superconducting cables of the second generation, which make it possible to obtain a perfect cube texture. In all five alloys, the spreed of the texture upon slow heating and two-step annealing decreases by 0.2°–1.5° around the RD and by 0.1°–0.6° around the RD in comparison with the single-stage high-temperature annealing.

Structural and magnetic state of a lightly doped Zn1 − xVxTe crystal

The specific features of the structure and the spin system of a lightly doped Zn1 − xVxTe (x = 0.0002) crystal have been investigated for the first time using thermal neutron diffraction and magnetic measurements. The results of these experiments have been discussed in a close connection with the previously obtained information on neutron diffraction and magnetism in Zn1 − xVxSe (x = 0.0018) and Zn1 − xCrxSe (x = 0.0029, x = 0.0450) single crystals.

Study of the structure of cobalt single crystals during the β → α transformation

Methods of metallography, transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction have been used to study the specific features of the structure formation during the fcc → hcp transformation occurring under different thermokinetic conditions in a single crystal of cobalt. It is shown that only one of four possible versions of hcp-phase crystal orientations is predominantly realized upon the β → α transformation occurring in the single crystal at a low cooling rate (Vcool ∼ 1–2 K/min). It has been established that several cycles of slow heating to temperatures of 600, 800 and 1000°C and subsequent cooling of the single crystal do not increase the number of α-phase orientations. The restoration of the initial fcc-phase single-crystal orientation was observed after each heating cycle of the oriented sample, while after cooling the restoration of the preferred hcp-martensite orientation was observed; in this case, the quantity of the retained β phase fixed in the structure at room temperature increases with increasing number of cycles. After rapid quenching from 530°C into salt water (Vcool ∼ 600–700 K/min), α-phase crystals of all four possible orientations are formed in the structure. Upon high-temperature quenching from 1000°C, the volume of crystal is divided into packets each containing martensite plates of predominantly one orientation. The transformation-induced recrystallization of the cobalt pseudo-single crystal quenched in salt water has been observed during repeated heating to temperatures above the β → α transformation temperature.

High-temperature shape memory effect and the B2-L10 thermoelastic martensitic transformation in Ni-Mn intermetallics

The properties and structure of the martensitic phase of alloys with a near-stoichiometric equiatomic Ni50Mn50 composition, as well as martensitic transformations in them, are investigated in a wide temperature range by measuring the resistivity and thermal expansion coefficient and applying transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and X-ray diffraction. It is found that Ni50Mn50 and Ni49Mn51 alloys experience the B2 → L10 highly reversible thermoelastic martensitic transformation and its related high-temperature deformation of the transformation and shape memory effect. Critical temperatures, volume (ΔV/V = ∓1.7%) and linear size effects attributed to the direct and reverse martensitic transformations, and the high-temperature dependences of the martensitic and austenite lattice parameters are determined. It is found that the morphology of tetragonal L10 martensitic represents a hierarchy of thin coherent sheets of submicrocrystallites and nanocrystallites with plane near-{111}L10 habit boundaries, the crystallites being pairwise twinned according to the {111}〈11

NiCrM (M = W, Mo, V) ternary alloy tapes as cube-textured substrates for second-generation superconducting cables

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