Structural and magnetic properties of ternary Fe_1–xMn_xPt nanoalloys from first principles

• Markus E. Gruner and
• Peter Entel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 162–172, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.20

• Markus E. Gruner Peter Entel Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration, CeNIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.2.20 Abstract Background: Structural and magnetic properties of binary Mn–Pt and ternary Fe1–xMnxPt nanoparticles in the size range of up

• only small additions of Mn can be tolerated for data recording applications. Keywords: density functional theory; Fe–Pt; magnetic data recording; magnetostructural transition; Mn–Pt; Introduction Magnetic transition metal alloy nanoparticles provide a large variety of possibilities in several

• interfaces as twin boundaries. Results and Discussion The size dependent evolution of morphologies of near stoichiometric Fe–Pt, Co–Pt and also partially Mn–Pt particles has been subject of recent publications by the authors [26][27][54][55][56]. A brief summary of the main results will therefore be given