Occurrence of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (invited)

Manfred Wuttig, Luohong Liu, Koichi Tsuchiya, Richard D. James

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Abstract

This article presents an overview of the necessary conditions for the formation of shape memory alloys (SMAs) and how these must overlap with the occurrence of ferromagnetism so that ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (MSMAs) may be formed. The electronic, elastic, and geometric conditions permit an understanding of the occurrence of Cu- and Fe-based SMAs as well as NiMnGa Heusler MSMAs except that the naively determined critical electron concentration for the latter, 7.3, disagrees with the values of 1.5 and 8.6 accepted for the Hume-Rothery phases and certain Fe-based systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4707-4711
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume87
Issue number9 II
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event44th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Nov 15 1999Nov 18 1999

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