Magnetic and Transport Properties of New Dual-Phase High-Entropy Alloy FeRhIrPdPt

Abstract

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are broadly explored from the perspective of mechanical, corrosion-resistance, catalytic, structural, superconducting, magnetic properties, and so on. In magnetic HEAs, 3d transition metals or rare-earth elements are well-studied compositional elements. We researched a magnetic HEA containing Fe combined with 4d and 5d transition metals, which has not been well investigated, and found a new dual-phase face-centered-cubic (fcc) HEA FeRhIrPdPt. The structural, magnetic, and transport properties were evaluated by assuming that FeRhIrPdPt is a mixture of FeRh4, FeIr4, FePd4, and FePt4, all with the fcc structure. The dual-phase is composed of a Rh- and Ir-rich main phase and a Pd- and Pt-rich minor one. FeRh4 and FeIr4 show spin freezings at low temperatures, while FePd4 and FePt4 are ferromagnetic. Two magnetic features can characterize FeRhIrPdPt. One is the canonical spin-glass transition at 90 K, and the other is a ferromagnetic correlation that appears below 300 K. The main and minor phases were responsible for the spin-glass transition and the ferromagnetic correlation below 300 K, respectively.