Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1651027 Materials Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
The Ni49.8Mn28.5Ga21.7 powders of micro-scale irregular equiaxial particles are prepared by ball milling method, and characterized by XRD, DSC and SEM techniques. The powders are found to contain disordered fct structure. Upon heating to high temperatures, the crystal structure of the as-milled powder is found to evolve from disordered fct to disordered bcc and then to a Heusler-type structure sequentially. The critical temperature for the transition from the bcc phase to the Heusler phase is 360 °C. This phase transition process is also a disorder-order transition. An atomic ordering model similar to the grain nucleation and growth is established to explain the annealing temperature dependence of the phase transformation temperature.
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