The praseodymium–iron–boron alloy, Pr2Fe14B, is found to possess excellent permanent‐magnet properties. In this paper we report the investigation of the electronic structure of the system Pr2Fe14−x Cox B (x=0, 3, 5, 7, and 8.5) by soft x‐ray appearance potential spectroscopy (SXAPS). SXAPS exploits the abrupt changes in the total x‐ray emission associated with the thresholds for the excitations of core levels of the atoms in the surface region of the materials. This technique is particularly suitable for investigating the changes in the unoccupied states of rare‐earth and transition‐metal intermetallics which have high density of empty states at the Fermi level.The Pr M5 ‐level SXAPS peak in the system is found to exhibit negative chemical shift which progressively decreases as a function of Co concentration. However, the L2,3 levels of Fe and Co show increasing positive chemical shift. The chemical shifts data display a maximum at x=7 in these three cases which correlates well with reported behavior in the lattice constants of alloy systems. These chemical shifts have been discussed on the basis of charge transfer among the constituents of the system. The full width at half‐maximum of the L3 peaks of Fe and Co indicates a decreasing trend as a function of Co concentration. These spectral characteristics have been interpreted in terms of the d‐band narrowing as a result of interaction between 3d bands of Fe and Co.
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May 01 1989
Soft‐x‐ray appearance potential spectroscopy study of Pr2Fe14−xCoxB
A. R. Chourasia;
A. R. Chourasia
Physics Department, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas 75428
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D. R. Chopra;
D. R. Chopra
Physics Department, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas 75428
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S. K. Malik
S. K. Malik
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, 400005 India
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J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 7, 2075–2079 (1989)
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August 19 1988
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December 28 1988
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A. R. Chourasia, D. R. Chopra, S. K. Malik; Soft‐x‐ray appearance potential spectroscopy study of Pr2Fe14−xCoxB. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 1 May 1989; 7 (3): 2075–2079. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.575973
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