Entel, P., Gruner, M. E., Fähler, S., Acet, M., Cahir, A., Arroyave, R., Sahoo, S., Duong, Th. C., Talapatra, A., Sandratskii, L. M., Mankowsky, S., Gottschall, T., Gutfleisch, O., Lazpita, P., Chernenko, V. A., Barandiaran, J. M., Solokovskiy, V. V., Buchelnikov, V. D.
Probing structural and magnetic instabilites and hysteresis in Heuslers by Density Functional Theory calculations
Physica Status Solidi B 255, (2),pp 1700296/1-14 (2018)
Martensitic transformations of rapidly quenched and less rapidly cooled
Heusler alloys of type Ni-Mn-X with X=Ga, In, and Sn are investigated by
ab initio calculatioms. For the rapidly cooled alloys, we obtain the magnetocaloric
properties near the magnetocaloric transition. For the less rapidly
quenched alloys these magnetocaloric properties start to change considerably,
each alloy transforms during temper-annealing into a dual-phase composite
alloy. The two phases are identified to be cubic Ni-Mn-X and tetragonal
NiMn.
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