Nano Scaled Checkerboards: A Long Range Ordering in NiCoMnAl Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Thin Films with Martensitic Intercalations

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Nano Scaled Checkerboards: A Long Range Ordering in NiCoMnAl Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Thin Films with Martensitic Intercalations
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Ramermann, Daniela ; Becker, Andreas ; Büker, Björn ; Hütten, Andreas ; Ennen, Inga
Enthalten in
Applied Sciences, Jg. 12 H. 3
Erschienen
2022
Sprache
Englisch
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magnetic shape memory alloys / NiCoMnAl Heusler alloys / martensitic intercalations / crystalline structure
URN
urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29611609
DOI
10.3390/app12031748

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Magnetic shape memory Heusler alloys, such as NiCoMnAl, are considered as promising candidates for magnetocaloric cooling applications. Grown in thin film systems of adjacent layers with austenite and martensite crystal structures of almost equal thicknesses, a long-range ordering phenomenon in the shape of a 3D checkerboard pattern occurs in NiCoMnAl samples. The crystallographic origin of the pattern is proven by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. The darker fields of the arrangement consist of martensite nuclei superposed with austenite, while the purely austenite regions appear bright in TEM cross sections. The nucleation process is presumably triggered by inhomogeneous local elastic stray fields of primary martensitic nuclei in the austenite matrix and limited by the thicknesses of the martensite and austenite thin films.

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