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Wei, Songrui (Wei, Songrui.) | Song, Xiaoping (Song, Xiaoping.) (Scholars:宋晓平) | Yang, Sen (Yang, Sen.) (Scholars:杨森) | Deng, Junkai (Deng, Junkai.) | Wang, Yu (Wang, Yu.)

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For several decades, morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) in ferroelectric materials has attracted constant interest due to its great enhancement of piezoelectric properties. However, such a MPB has been studied merely in ferroelectric system, not in ferromagnetic system. Recently, we reported the magnetic MPB in a ferromagnetic system of TbCo2-DyCo2 and correspondingly a larger magnetostriction (i.e. a piezoelectricity-like phenomenon in ferromagnets) occurs near MPB. Very surprisingly, such a MPB in TbCo2-DyCo2 system has been ever regarded as a spin reorientation transition (SRT) where the spontaneous magnetization (M-s) gradually rotates from < 111 > in TbCo2-rich phase to < 001 > of DyCo2-rich phase and vice versa. But, our experiment of synchrotron x-ray diffractometry demonstrates the MPB region is the coexistence of TbCo2 and DyCo2 phases and hence the M-s cannot rotate gradually from < 111 > to < 001 >(1). Thus, the process of magnetization rotation near MPB in a ferromagnetic system of TbCo2-DyCo2 remains obscure due to a lack of in-situ observation of magnetic moment rotation. In the present work, by using a method of Monte Carlo simulation, we successfully reproduce the observed effects and furthermore clarify the magnetization rotation process near the magnetic MPB of TbCo2-DyCo2 systems. Namely, the direction of magnetization changes discontinuously from < 111 > to < 001 > near the MPB via the phase transition process from TbCo2-rich phase to DyCo2-rich phase. Our simulation provides an effective way to understand the origin of the magnetic MPB.

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magnetization rotation magnetostriction Monte Carlo simulation Morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) spin reorientation transition (SRT) TbCo2-DyCo2 alloys

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  • [ 1 ] [Wei, Songrui; Song, Xiaoping; Yang, Sen; Deng, Junkai; Wang, Yu] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, MOE Key Lab Nonequilibrium Synth & Modulat Conden, Sch Mat Sci Sch & Engn, Xian 710049, Peoples R China

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  • Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, MOE Key Lab Nonequilibrium Synth & Modulat Conden, Sch Mat Sci Sch & Engn, Xian 710049, Peoples R China.

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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING

ISSN: 0277-786X

Year: 2012

Volume: 8409

Language: English

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SCOPUS Cited Count: 2

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30 Days PV: 3

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