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Coupling between ferromagnetic and ferroelastic transitions and ordering in Heusler alloys produces new multifunctionality

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The ability of Heusler alloys to accommodate broad variations of composition, doping, and ordering provides multiple options for tailoring their ferromagnetic and ferroelastic properties. Moreover, existing coupling between these ferroic properties ranging from coupled ferroic transitions to a coupling of their ferromagnetic and ferroelastic microstructure allows for manifold multifunctionalities. Here, we focus on ferromagnetic, metamagnetic and reentrant shape-memory alloys explaining the principles and sketch effects’ rich susceptibility to temperature, magnetic field, and stress. We illustrate how these can provide a path to a multitude of emerging applications for actuation, sensing, and energy use. As an outlook, we discuss time dependency, fatigue, and finite size effects, which are not yet fully explored.

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Part of this work was supported by DFG through SPP FerroicCooling—FA453/12 (S.F.) and by the Czech Science Foundation, Grant No. 19-09882S (O.H.) and 21-06613S (H.S.) and by the Operational Program Research, Development and Education by MEYS CR within projects MATFUN –CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15-003/0000487.

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    Oleg Heczko

  2. FZU–Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Oleg Heczko

  3. Institute of Thermomechanics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Hanuš Seiner

  4. Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

    Sebastian Fähler

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Heczko, O., Seiner, H. & Fähler, S. Coupling between ferromagnetic and ferroelastic transitions and ordering in Heusler alloys produces new multifunctionality. MRS Bulletin 47, 618–627 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-022-00354-x

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