DFT calculation and experimental investigation of Mn doping effect in Fe16N2

Yanfeng Jiang; Burak Himmetoglu; Matteo Cococcioni; Jian Ping Wang

doi:10.1063/1.4943059

DFT calculation and experimental investigation of Mn doping effect in Fe₁₆N₂

Yanfeng Jiang, Burak Himmetoglu, Matteo Cococcioni, Jian Ping Wang

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Abstract

An effective dopant to improve the thermal stability of a Fe₁₆N₂ permanent magnet is proposed in this paper. It is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally that manganese is a promising candidate as dopant in Fe₁₆N₂ magnet to improve the thermal stability. Firstly, the atomic moments of the Fe ions with respect to N is investigated by using first-principles DFT calculation. Two possible candidates of elements, including Co and Mn, are compared in terms of its preferred position and magnetic coupling mode. It is found that Mn prefers Fe1 position and ferromagnetic coupling in the Fe₁₆N₂ lattice. So Mn is considered as a promising dopant in Fe₁₆N₂ magnet to improve its thermal stability. Based on theoretical results, experiments are conducted by a cold-crucible method to prepare (Fe_1-xMn_x) N bulk samples. The samples are thermal treated at different temperatures to observe their thermal stabilities. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) are characterized on the samples.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	056007
Journal	AIP Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943059
State	Published - May 1 2016

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This work was supported in part by ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) BCT Fe<Inf>16</Inf>N<Inf>2</Inf> Magnet project under contract No.0472-1595. Parts of this work were carried out in using the Characterization Facility, which receives partial support from NSF through the NSF Minnesota MRSEC program under Award Number DMR-0819885.Dr. Jian-Ping Wang has equity and royalty interests in, and serves on the Board of Directors and the Scientific Advisory Board for, Niron Magnetics LLC, a company involved in the commercialization of FeN magnets. The University of Minnesota also has equity and royalty interests in Niron Magnetics LLC. These interests have been reviewed and managed by the University of Minnesota in accordance with its Conflict of Interest policies.

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