Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036 India
2. Department of Humanities and Sciences CVR College of Engineering Hyderabad India
3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036 India
4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 502285 India
Abstract
Herein, the effect of addition of Cu, Fe, and CuFe on microstructure and magnetic properties of equiatomic ternary AlNiCo alloy is reported. This addition of Cu, Fe, and CuFe to AlNiCo results in L12, B2, and mixed α + B2 phases, respectively, during the mechanical alloying (MA) and subsequent annealing process. The low‐temperature magnetic properties show that the addition of nonmagnetic Cu to AlNiCo enhances the coercivity, while Fe enhances the saturation magnetization value. Further from the study of magnetic properties, it is suggested that the phase segregation effects are minimum in MA process compared to melt process. It is also shown that the disorder plays a significant role in controlling the magnetic properties. The observed anomalous magnetic behavior is discussed in terms of modifications in exchange interactions between constituent elements due to chemical and structural disorder.