Synthesis and Characterization of Bulk a''-Fe16N2.
Synthesis and Characterization of Bulk a''-Fe16N2.
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10.1016/0925-8388(94)04901-7
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1995-05
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K. Jack
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K. Jack
Controversy about the magnetic moment of α″-Fe16N2thin films makes it necessary to examine bulk material. In the original 1951 bulk preparation N-austenite (γ) prepared by nitriding α-Fe at 700–750 °C was quenched to give N-martensite (α′) which then gave α″ on long tempering at 120 °C; the final product contained less than 50% α″. Recent repetition in three different laboratories gave various amounts of α″, again less than 50%, with considerable variation in its assessed magnetic moment. X-ray diffraction studies of α′ tempering, and also transmission electron microscopy of α″ precipitation from supersaturated N-ferrite (α), showed that slow ordering of N atoms to produce α″ occurs only after localized regions of α′ and α reach the Fe8N composition by a clustering process. α′-Fe8N can be obtained with a tetragonality c a equal to that of α″, but without the N-ordering characteristic of Fe16N2. The range α′-Fe8N→α″-Fe16N2offers an explanation for the variability in magnetic properties. The existence of the α″-carbonitride Fe16(C, N)2is noted and possible methods, including alloying, for the production of pure bulk α″ are suggested.