2014 Measurements of magnetic susceptibility and spontaneous magnetization on face centred cubic platinum-iron alloys having compositions around Pt3Fe and also on alloys with lower iron contents, are reported. In the Pt3Fe superlattice region the alloys appear to be antiferromagnetic when ordered and ferromagnetic when disordered. The more dilute alloys are ferromagnetic, even down to 2 at. % o...

Shape memory alloys have attracted much attention due to their attractive properties for applications as well as their basic aspects of deformation and transformation in structural and magnetic behavior. In 1951, the Au–Cd alloy was discovered [1]. After that, numberless shape memory alloys have been developed. A lot of applications of shape memory alloys were realized after the Ti–Ni alloy was...

The objective of this work is to understand the structure-property relationships in polycrystalline NiTiPt (Ti 42.7 at.% Ni 7.5 at %Pt) with a composition showing pseudoelasticity at ambient temperatures. Structural characterization of the alloy includes grain size determination and texture analysis while the thermomechanical properties are explored using tensile testing. Variation in heat trea...

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with ferromagnetic electrodes possessing a perpendicular magnetic easy axis are of great interest as they have a potential for realizing next-generation high-density non-volatile memory and logic chips with high thermal stability and low critical current for current-induced magnetization switching. To attain perpendicular anisotropy, a number of material systems...

We report a first-principles study of a class of (BiScO3)12x-(PbTiO3)x ~BS-PT! alloys recently proposed by Eitel et al. as promising materials for piezoelectric actuator applications. We show that ~i! BS-PT displays very large structural distortions and polarizations at the morphotropic phase boundary ~MPB! ~we obtain a c/a of ;1.05–1.08 and P tet'0.9 C/m ); ~ii! the ferroelectric and piezoelec...

The dark electrocatalytic and light photocathodic hydrogen evolution properties of Ni, Ni–Mo alloys, and Pt on Si electrodes have been measured, to assess the viability of earth-abundant electrocatalysts for integrated, semiconductor coupled fuel formation. In the dark, the activities of these catalysts deposited on degenerately doped p-Si electrodes increased in the order Ni < Ni–Mo # Pt. Ni–M...