Author Affiliations
1Institute of Advanced Magnetic Materials, School of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 3002, China2Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 0010, China4Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China5Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 23808, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. (a) L21-type and (b) XA-type crystal structures of Cd2MnTM (TM = Fe, Ni, Cu) compounds.
Fig. 2. Calculated total energy as a function of lattice constant for (a) Cd2MnFe, (b) Cd2MnNi, and (c) Cd2MnCu with L21-type and XA-type structures in FM, AFM, and NM states, respectively.
Fig. 3. Calculated band structures of L21-type (a) Cd2MnFe, (b) Cd2MnNi, and (c) Cd2MnCu at each equilibrium lattice constant.
Fig. 4. Calculated total and partial density of states of L21-type (a) Cd2MnFe, (b) Cd2MnNi, and (c) Cd2MnCu at each equilibrium lattice constant.
Fig. 5. Calculated total and atomic magnetic moments of L21-type (a) Cd2MnFe, (b) Cd2MnNi, and (c) Cd2MnCu as a function of the lattice constant.
Fig. 6. ΔE as a function of the c/a ratio for Cd2MnTM (TM = Fe, Ni, Cu). The zero point represents the energy of the austenite (c/a = 1).
Fig. 7. ΔE as a function of c/a ratio for Cd2MnFe with expansion/contraction of the unit cell volume. The zero point represents the energy of the austenite (c/a = 1). Inset: the relationship between ΔE and Vopt + x%Vopt.
Fig. 8. (a) Calculated band structure of Cd2MnFe with c/a = 1.41. (b) Calculated band structure of Cd2MnNi with c/a = 1.33.
Fig. 9. Calculated total and atomic magnetic moments of L21-type (a) Cd2MnFe, (b) Cd2MnNi, and (c) Cd2MnCu as a function of c/a.
Compound | Structure | a/Å | Mtot/μB | MCd/μB | MTM/μB | MMn/μB |
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Cd2MnFe | L21-type | 6.49 | 6.36 | 0.02 | 2.72 | 3.61 | Cd2MnNi | L21-type | 6.44 | 3.95 | 0.02 | 0.19 | 3.72 | Cd2MnCu | L21-type | 6.51 | 3.82 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 3.76 |
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Table 1. Crystal structure, equilibrium lattice constant (a), total and partial spin moments for Cd2MnTM (TM = Fe, Ni, Cu) at equilibrium lattice constant.
Compound | ΔE/eV | c/a | Mtot/μB | MCd/μB | MTM/μB | MMn/μB |
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Cd2MnFe | −0.19 | 1.41 | 6.07 | −0.03 | 2.62 | 3.51 | Cd2MnNi | −0.04 | 1.33 | 4.17 | 0.03 | 0.34 | 3.77 |
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Table 2. Energy difference ΔE between martensite and austenite, c/a ratio, total and partial magnetic moments of Cd2MnTM (TM = Fe, Ni) in their martensitic phases.