Abstract
Abstract Two different transformation routes, quenching followed by heat treatment (route 1), and cooling at intermediate rate (route 2), were used to obtain the L1 0 phase in Mn-Al alloys. The resulting materials showed remarkable differences in microstructure and magnetic properties. In addition, fully transformed material was cold-worked and then recovered by heat treatment. The microstructure of both cold-worked and recovered samples appeared similar in backscattered electron images, however, the magnetic properties differed greatly. Large numbers of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns were recorded from all the materials and the pattern quality was quantified, yielding a measure of the dislocation density. The results indicated that both the dislocation density and the coercivity of the cold-worked sample were much higher than in the recovered sample. In addition to other microstructural changes, the route 1 sample had higher dislocation density and coercivity compared to the route 2 sample. For the as-transformed materials, the results were supported by EBSD misorientation mapping and strain analysis of x-ray diffraction data. The continuum theory of dislocations was used to show that the local stress fields of dislocations will cause distortions in the crystal structure leading to local changes in the intrinsic magnetic properties. Such features are likely to act as pinning centres for magnetic domain walls and therefore a higher dislocation density implies a higher coercivity. This conclusion was additionally supported by initial magnetisation curves, which showed evidence for an active pinning mechanism in the cold-worked sample but not for the recovered sample.
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