SANS polarization analysis on Ni-Mn-In shape-memory alloys: existenceof core-shell-type spin structure?

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The aim of our proposal is to study the purely magnetic microstructure of Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloys on a mesoscopic microstructural length scale (1-300 nm) by means of magnetic SANS. In order to disentangle the nuclear coherent scattering signal from the magnetic contribution, we will make use of the recently developed so-called POLARIS technique (1D polarization analysis). By means of POLARIS, it becomes possible to access all three magnetization Fourier components as a function of temperature and applied magnetic field. We are not aware that such an experiment has been carried out on Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloys, and we believe that, besides improving our understanding of the POLARIS technique, it will provide fundamental insights into the underlying mechanism of magnetic SMA; in particular, we will be able to prove or disprove a recently proposed core-shell-type spin structure for this type of material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-32-841
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-32-841
Provenance
Creator Michels, Andreas; Honecker, Dirk; Zakutna, Dominika; Scheibel, Franziska; Benacchio, Giordano; Titov, Ivan; Acet, Mehmet
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2017
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields