Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research

 

Date of this Version

7-2013

Citation

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, VOL. 49, NO. 7, JULY 2013; DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2242856

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Copyright 2013 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

This study presents the structural and magnetic properties of melt-spun HfCo7, HfCo7-xFex (0.25 ≤ x ≤ 1), and HfCo7Six (0.2 ≤ x ≤ 1.2) alloys. Appreciable permanent-magnet properties with a magnetocrystalline anisotropy of about 9.6–16.5 Mergs/cm3, a magnetic polarization Js ≈ 7.2–10.6 kG, and coercivities Hc = 0.5–3.0 kOe were obtained by varying the composition of these alloys. Structural analysis reveals that the positions of x-ray diffraction peaks of HfCo7 show good agreement with those corresponding to an orthorhombic structure having lattice parameters of about a = 4.719 Å, b = 4.278 Å, and c = 8.070 Å. Based on these results, a model crystal structure for HfCo7 is developed and used to estimate the magnetic properties of HfCo7 using density-functional calculations, which agree with the experimental results.

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