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Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and compositional order in Fe0.5Pt0.5: Calculations from an ab initio electronic model
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UNSPECIFIED. (2003) Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and compositional order in Fe0.5Pt0.5: Calculations from an ab initio electronic model. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 93 (1). pp. 453-457. ISSN 0021-8979
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1523147
Abstract
The magnetic properties of FePt samples, potential materials for high density recording media, depend sharply on the degree of chemical ordering produced during their preparation. This has prompted our investigation of the chemical order in both paramagnetic (P) and ferromagnetic (F) phases of a Fe0.5Pt0.5 solid solution and its effect upon the magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MAE) of the latter phase. Our "first-principles'' theory uses density functional electronic structure calculations and a mean field treatment of both compositional and magnetic "local moment'' fluctuations. We find both phases to be unstable to L1(0) (CuAu)-type order below temperatures of 1975 K (P) and 1565 K (F) which compares well with that found experimentally (approximate to1600 K) and our estimate of the Curie temperature as 575 K is also in fair agreement (710 K). For L1(0) order the calculated MAE is uniaxial with a simple form, v(L10)c((0,0,1))(2) sin(2) theta, where the coefficient v(L10) = 9.7 x 10(8) erg/cm(3), c((0,0,1)) is the degree of order (between 0 and 0.5) and theta is the angle between the magnetization direction and the magnetic easy axis, which lies perpendicular to the layering of the L1(0) structure, also consistent with experimental data. Tetragonal distortions of the underlying face-centered-cubic lattice that occur as chemical order sets in are found to have a much smaller effect on the MAE. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS |
| Publisher: | AMER INST PHYSICS |
| ISSN: | 0021-8979 |
| Date: | 1 January 2003 |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Number of Pages: | 5 |
| Page Range: | pp. 453-457 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1063/1.1523147 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180 |
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