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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 679, Issue -, Pages 268-276Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.04.041
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Heusler alloys; Transition metal alloys and compounds; Localized moments; X-ray emission spectroscopy
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- Russian Science Foundation [15-12-10015]
- Russian Science Foundation [15-12-10015] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Heusler alloys are a property-rich class of materials, intensively investigated today from both theoretical and real-world application points of view. In this paper, we attempt to shed light on the role of electronic correlations in the Fe2MeAl group (where Me represents all 3d elements from Ti to Ni) of Heusler alloys. For this purpose, we have investigated the local moments of iron by means of the x-ray emission spectroscopy technique. To obtain numerical values of local moments, the K alpha-FWHM method has been employed for the first time. In every compound of the group, the presence of a local moment on the Fe atom was detected. As has been revealed, the values of these moments are temperature-independent, pointing to an insufficiency of a pure itinerant approach to magnetism in these alloys. We also comprehensively compare the usage of K beta main lines and K alpha spectra as tools for the probing of local moments and point out the significant advantages of the latter. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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