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We present a combined experimental and computational study of high temperature magnetic properties of Fe-Cr alloys with chromium content up to about 20 at.%. The magnetic cluster expansion method is applied to model the magnetic properties of random Fe-Cr alloys, and in particular the Curie transition temperature, as a function of alloy composition. We find that at low (3-6 at.%) Cr content the Curie temperature increases with the increase of Cr concentration. It is maximum at approximately 6 at.% Cr and then decreases for higher Cr content. The same feature is found in thermo-magnetic measurements performed on model Fe-Cr alloys, where a 5 at.% Cr alloy has a higher Curie temperature than pure Fe. The Curie temperatures of 10 and 15 at.% Cr alloys are found to be lower than the Curie temperature of pure Fe.
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An element-specific study of the Nd(3)Fe(27.5)Ti(1.5) compound using the hard x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) technique is presented. The Nd L(2) and L(3) edge XMCD, as well as the Fe K edge XMCD, were measured in a magnetically oriented sample, parallel and perpendicular to its alignment direction. The XMCD spectra were recorded at three different temperatures, above, below and in between the characteristic peaks that the specific compound presents in AC susceptibility measurements. By probing the Nd L edges and the Fe K edge XMCD, we found that the dipolar R(5d)-Fe(3d) exchange interaction behaves differently with temperature change than the Fe-Fe magnetic interaction. Those differences appear to be in the vicinity of the AC susceptibility characteristic peaks. An XMCD signal was recorded at the Ti K edge, revealing a small orbital polarization due to the hybridization with Fe atomic states. This demonstrates the existence of a small finite magnetic moment in Ti atoms.
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FePtMn nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution and an average diameter of 3 nm were synthesized by the chemical reduction of Fe(acac)(3) and Pt(acac)(2) by NaBH(4) and the thermal decomposition of Mn(2)(CO)(10) in phenyl ether. The as-made nanoparticles have a disordered face-centred cubic (fcc) structure, which transformed after thermal treatment at 650 °C to an ordered face-centred tetragonal (fct) structure, possessing coercivity values up to 13.7 kOe at room temperature. The coercivity of the annealed samples depends on the amount of Mn added to the reaction mixture, with the coercive field increasing significantly with the partial substitution of Pt by Mn, while the partial substitution of Fe by Mn does not affect the magnetic properties strongly.