Abstract
Results for resistance versus temperature, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Mössbauer spectroscopy, and magnetic susceptibility measurements in a Ti 50Ni 47Fe 3 sample are presented. The resistance versus temperature curve shows a sharp increase at 245K and then rises slowly until a maximum is attained at ∼150K. The DSC curve also exhibits a peak at the former temperature. The room temperature Mössbauer spectrum consists of a single line. As the temperature is lowered to 270K, a small asymmetric quadrupole doublet appears. The isomer shift and quadrupole splitting values of this doublet increase with decreasing temperature until almost constant values are achieved at temperatures ∼100K. The magnetic susceptibility curve shows a sharp decrease that begins at 255K and then an unexpected increase at 90K. We relate these observations with a charge density wave-driven premartensitic transition in this system, and with the final martensitic phase.
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