Zhao Tongyun

Magnetic properties of Sm2Fe17Ny with Al substituted for Fe

By means of X-ray diffraction analysis, it is shown for x < 0.4 that all the interstitial Sm-2(Fe1-xAlx)(17)N-y nitrides and the parent compounds crystallize with Th2Zn(17)-type structure. The lattice constants of the parent compounds increase linearly with Al concentration. The introduction of nitrogen atoms leads to a further increase in the lattice constants, but the increase becomes smaller with increasing Al concentration; this can be related to the fact that the nitrogen content introduced into the parent compounds decreases nearly linearly with increasing Al concentration. The dependence on composition of T-c of the parent compounds exhibits a maximum, whereas T-c of the nitrides decreases monotonically with Al content from 750 K for x=0 to 313 K for x=0.4. The introduction of nitrogen leads to enhancement of the average magnetic moment of Fe in Sm2Fe17, whereas the substitution of Al for Fe leads to a decrease in the average magnetic moment of Fe in both the nitrides and the parent compounds. The anisotropy field B-a of nitrides is almost independent of the Al concentration for x less than or equal to 0.3, then decreases very fast and becomes zero at about x = 0.4.

Anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in HoAlGa polycrystalline compound

In this work, a nonnegligible anisotropic magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in HoAlGa polycrystalline compounds has been observed. With temperature increasing, the HoAlGa compound undergoes two kinds of magnetic transitions at 19 K and 31 K, respectively, the later has been recognized as an ordinary antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic (AFM-PM) transition. The -ΔS peak of HoAGa reaches 5.4 J/kg K and 1.5 J/kg K at 35 K along parallel and perpendicular texture directions respectively, for a field change of 0-5 T. The result indicates that the HoAlGa polycrystalline compounds with excellent anisotropic MCE can be expected to have effective magnetic refrigeration applications in low temperature range.In this work, a nonnegligible anisotropic magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in HoAlGa polycrystalline compounds has been observed. With temperature increasing, the HoAlGa compound undergoes two kinds of magnetic transitions at 19 K and 31 K, respectively, the later has been recognized as an ordinary antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic (AFM-PM) transition. The -ΔS peak of HoAGa reaches 5.4 J/kg K and 1.5 J/kg K at 35 K along parallel and perpendicular texture directions respectively, for a field change of 0-5 T. The result indicates that the HoAlGa polycrystalline compounds with excellent anisotropic MCE can be expected to have effective magnetic refrigeration applications in low temperature range.

Magnetic Transitions and Magnetoresistance of Y1-xDyxMn6Sn6 (x = 0.2 and 0.3)

Magnetic transitions and magnetoresistance of HfFe6Ge6-type Y1-xDyxMn6Sn6 (x = 0.2 and 0.3) have been investigated in the temperature range of 5-380 K. It was found that the strong exchange interaction between the Dy and Mn sublattices results in incomplete ferromagnetism at low temperatures. At higher temperatures, the metamagnetic transition from an antiferromagnetic state to a ferrimagnetic state can be induced by a fairly small threshold field or by increasing temperature. The magnetic transition is accompanied by a large magnetoresistance effect of about -29% and -16% at 5 K for x = 0.2 and 0.3, respectively.

Oscillatory interlayer coupling with Cu and Zr underlayer thickness for Co/Cu multilayers

Oscillatory behavior (with a period of about 9 nm) of antiferromagnetic coupling with the thicknesses of Cu and Zr underlayers is reported for sputtered Co(1 nm)/Cu(2.3 nm) multilayers. The related oscillation of magnetoresistance is also observed. Based on the analysis of x-ray diffraction patterns, the variation of crystallographic orientation and modulation period is proved not responsible to the phenomenon. But the underlayer strongly affects the growth orientation of multilayer.