Magnetic and Transport Properties of New Dual-Phase High-Entropy Alloy FeRhIrPdPt

• Main Authors: Kohei Baba, Naoki Ishizu, Terukazu Nishizaki, Jiro Kitagawa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
• Series: Materials
• Subjects: high-entropy alloys; Fe; 4<i>d</i> and 5<i>d</i> transition metals; magnetic properties; dual-phase
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/11/2877

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are broadly explored from the perspective of mechanical, corrosion-resistance, catalytic, structural, superconducting, magnetic properties, and so on. In magnetic HEAs, 3<i>d</i> transition metals or rare-earth elements are well-studied compositional elements. We researched a magnetic HEA containing Fe combined with 4<i>d</i> and 5<i>d</i> transition metals, which has not been well investigated, and found a new dual-phase face-centered-cubic (fcc) HEA FeRhIrPdPt. The structural, magnetic, and transport properties were evaluated by assuming that FeRhIrPdPt is a mixture of FeRh₄, FeIr₄, FePd₄, and FePt₄, all with the fcc structure. The dual-phase is composed of a Rh- and Ir-rich main phase and a Pd- and Pt-rich minor one. FeRh₄ and FeIr₄ show spin freezings at low temperatures, while FePd₄ and FePt₄ are ferromagnetic. Two magnetic features can characterize FeRhIrPdPt. One is the canonical spin-glass transition at 90 K, and the other is a ferromagnetic correlation that appears below 300 K. The main and minor phases were responsible for the spin-glass transition and the ferromagnetic correlation below 300 K, respectively.