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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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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING
ISSN: 0277-786X
Year: 2012
Volume: 8409
Language: English
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