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Structure, Magnetic Properties and Hyperfine Parameters of Nd-Substituted Ni-Fe-Ga Heusler Alloys

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Samples of Ni57-xNdxFe18Ga25 with x=2 and 4 were prepared in ribbon form by rapid quenching via melt spinning route. The samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetic measurements and Mössbauer spectroscopy, both in the as-quenched form and after thermal annealing at 900 oC for 2 min and 400 oC for 2 hours. For x=2 the Nd atoms are completely dissolved in the Ni-Fe-Ga matrix, while for x=4 the additional occurrence of the secondary 2:17 phase could be resolved. These findings were supported by the analysis of hyperfine magnetic field distributions obtained from the non-linear least-squares fitting of the Mössbauer spectra.

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  1. Department of Physics, Duquesne University, Fisher Hall, 15282, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Monica Sorescu

  2. National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG/7, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

    Felicia Tolea, Mihaela Valeanu & Mihaela Sofronie

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Sorescu, M., Tolea, F., Valeanu, M. et al. Structure, Magnetic Properties and Hyperfine Parameters of Nd-Substituted Ni-Fe-Ga Heusler Alloys. MRS Advances 2, 1341–1346 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.70

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