Magnetic properties of disordered Ni3C

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关键词: CURIE-WEISS BEHAVIOR;    SPIN-GLASS BEHAVIOR;    NANOCRYSTALLINE NICKEL;    ULTRAFINE PARTICLES;    IMMISCIBLE ELEMENTS;    METAL;    FERROFLUID;    SYSTEMS;    IRON;    CO;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.62.8969

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

The metastable Ni3C phase has been produced by mechanically alloying Ni and C. Ni3C particles of diameter 10 nm are produced after 90 h of mechanical alloying with no evidence of crystalline Ni in x ray or electron diffraction. Linear muffin-tin orbital band-structure calculations show that Ni3C is not expected to be ferromagnetic due to strong Ni-C hybridization in the ordered alloy; however, the introduction of even small amounts of disorder produces locally Ni-rich regions that can sustain magnetism. Mechanically alloyed Ni3C is ferromagnetic, with a room-temperature coercivity of 70 Oe and a magnetization of 0.8 emu/g at 5.5 T, although the hysteresis loop is not saturated. The theoretical prediction that interacting locally nickel-rich regions may be responsible for ferromagnetic behavior is supported by the observation of magnetically glassy behavior at low magnetic fields.

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