High-throughput computation on relationship between composition and magnetic phase transition temperature of LaFe11.5Si1.5-based magnetic refrigeration materials
1.National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Nanotechnology, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China 2.College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China 3.Ningbo Institute of Materials Technolgy & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China 4.Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
Fund Project:Project supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0702701), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51771091), and the Local Colleges Applied Basic Research Projects of Yunnan Province, China(Grant No. 2018FH001-001).
Received Date:08 June 2021
Accepted Date:09 June 2021
Available Online:14 October 2021
Published Online:20 October 2021
Abstract:La(Fe,Si)13-based alloys have attracted more and more attention, for they exhibit giant magnetocaloric effects. In order to broaden their magnetic refrigeration temperatureranges, achieving a series of La(Fe,Si)13-based alloys with different magnetic phase transition temperatures is of great significance. Unlike the traditional research method, in this paper, a high-throughput first-principles computation is performed to estimate the magnetic phase transition temperature of the LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloy by employing AMS-BAND software and the mean field theory. We investigate the effects of doping Mn, Co, Ni, Al atoms and Fe-vacancies on the magnetic phase transition temperature of LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloy, and give the phase diagrams between the composition and magnetic phase transition temperature. The calculated results demonstrate that the magnetic phase transition temperature of the LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloy increases with the increase of Co and Ni content. However, it shows an opposite result when Mn atom is doped. As for the LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloy with the Fe-vacancies, the research results indicate that the absence of Fe atoms will reduce the magnetic phase transition temperature. Furthermore, when Mn, Co, Ni and Al atoms are doped in the alloys with Fe-vacancies, the variation tendency of the magnetic phase transition temperature with the change of the doping content is similar to that without the Fe-vacancies. Some estimated results are compared with the experimental or reported results, showing that they are in good agreement with each other. The PDOS and the magnetic moments of Fe atoms in the Mn, Co, Ni, Al-doped LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloys are calculated, in which only the doping of Mn atoms can increase the magnetic moments of Fe atoms. Using the method of high-throughput first-principles calculation can effectively reduce the research cost and improve the working efficiency. In addition, it can provide technical support for the experimental selection of magnetocaloric materials with appropriate magnetic phase transition temperatures. Keywords:high throughput calculation/ magnetic refrigeration/ magnetic phase transition temperature/ the first principles
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2.1.计算模型
本文以LaFe11.5Si1.5为例来估算不同元素掺杂对其磁相变温度的影响. 根据文献报道, La(Fe,Si)13基材料是具有立方NaZn13型结构的化合物, 空间群为Fm–3c(Oh6). 为了获得Si的占位信息, 首先分析未掺杂Si时LaFe13体系中每种原子的占位情况: LaFe13体系的每个晶胞中有8个La原子和104个Fe原子, Fe原子分别占据FeI(8b位)和FeII(96i位)两个不同的晶位. 其中, 8个La原子和8个FeI原子形成CsCl结构, 每个La原子被24个FeII原子包围. FeI原子被由12个FeII原子所组成的二十面体包围, 具有面心立方的局域环境. FeII原子被9个最近邻的FeII原子和1个FeI原子所包围. 当掺入Si后, LaFe11.5Si1.5体系中的12个Si原子随机占据FeII原子的位置[21], 晶体结构如图1所示. 图 1 LaFe11.5Si1.5基合金晶体结构示意图 Figure1. Schematic image of the crystal structure of LaFe11.5Si1.5-based alloy.