Vacuum Electromagnetic Levitation Melting and Undercooling of Peritectic Terfenol-D

For the first time, the undercooling of a magnetostrictive material-a near peritectic Tb0.27TDy0.73Fe1.90 alloy was realized by vacuum electromagnetic levitation melting and 60 K undercooling was obtained. There is one recaleseence be-havior during sol;difieation of the undercooled melt, which can attribute to the priority precipitation of REFe2 phase instead of REFe3 phase, due to preferential nucleation and higher crystal growth rate of REFe2 phase and the suppression of peri-tectic reaction. According to the crystal structural characteristic of REFe2 and REFe3, REFe2 is a Laves phase intermetal-lics with MgCu2 type structure, which has similar polytetrahedral structure wltn short range ordered structure in under-cooled melt and has lower potential barrier for nucleation than that of REFe3, which lead to the preferential nucleation of REFe2 phase directly from the undercooled melt. Also, the similarity of structures between REFe2 phase and undereooled melt leads to higher crystal growth rate of REFe2 phase than that of REFe3.

Vacuum Electromagnetic Levitation Melting and Undercooling of Peritectic Terfenol-D

For the first time, the undercooling of a magnetostrictive material a near peritectic Tb 0.27 Dy 0.73 Fe 1.90 alloy was realized by vacuum electromagnetic levitation melting and 60 K undercooling was obtained. There is one recalescence behavior during solidification of the undercooled melt,which can attribute to the priority precipitation of REFe 2 phase instead of REFe 3 phase, due to preferential nucleation and higher crystal growth rate of REFe 2 phase and the suppression of peritectic reaction. According to the crystal structural characteristics of REFe 2 and REFe 3, REFe 2 is a Laves phase intermetallics with MgCu 2 type structure, which has similar polytetrahedral structure with short range ordered structure in undercooled melt and has lower potential barrier for nucleation than that of REFe 3,which lead to the preferential nucleation of REFe 2 phase directly from the undercooled melt. Also, the similarity of structures between REFe 2 phase and undercooled melt leads to higher crystal growth rate of REFe 2 phase than that of REFe 3.