Increase in the magnetostrictive susceptibility of Tb0.3Dy0.67Ho0.03Fe2−x Co x alloys upon substitution of cobalt for iron

Abstract

This paper reports on the results of investigations into the concentration dependences of the magnetostrictive susceptibility, the magnetostriction, the magnetization, and the Curie temperature for Tb0.3Dy0.67Ho0.03Fe2−x Co x alloys upon substitution of cobalt for iron. It is revealed that the temperature of the spin-reorientation transition shifts toward room temperature with an increase in the cobalt content in the range 0 ≤ x ≤ 1.3. Substitution of cobalt for iron in the alloys leads to a decrease in the contribution of the 3d transition metal sublattice to the magnetic anisotropy owing to the opposite signs of the single-ion anisotropy constants for iron and cobalt. The decrease observed in the magnetocrystalline anisotropy compensated in both rare-earth and 3d transition metal sublattices is responsible for the high magnetostrictive susceptibility of the studied compounds at a high cobalt content (x = 1.3) in the room-temperature range.