title: Ion-irradiation-assisted phase selection in single crystalline Fe7Pd3 ferromagnetic shape memory alloy thin films: from fcc to bcc along the Nishiyama-Wassermann path.
abstract: When processing Fe-Pd ferromagnetic shape memory thin films, selection of the desired phases and their transformation temperatures constitutes one of the largest challenges from an application point of view. In the present contribution we demonstrate that irradiation with 1.8 MeV Kr(+) ions is the method of choice to achieve this goal: Single crystalline Fe(7)Pd(3) thin films that are grown with molecular beam epitaxy on MgO (001) substrates and subsequently irradiated with ions reveal a phase transformation along the whole phase transformation path ranging from fcc austenite to bcc martensite. While for 10(14) ions/cm(2) a fcc-fct phase transformation is observed, increasing the fluence to 5 × 10(14) ions/cm(2) and 5 × 10(15) ions/cm(2) leads to a phase transformation to the bcc phase. Pole figure measurements reveal an orientation relationship for the fcc-bcc phase transformation according to Nishiyama and Wassermann.
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung eV, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. ariyan.arabi-hashemi@iom-leipzig.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arabi-Hashemi
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Mayr