Magnetic and electronic structures of FePtCu ternary ordered alloy

Abstract

We investigated the microscopic structure of FePtCu ternary ordered alloys from both theoretical and experimental points of view. From the theoretical viewpoint, first principles calculation was carried out based on the full-potential linear augmented plane wave method in order to obtain the electronic structure and magnetic anisotropy energy of the FePtCu ternary ordered alloy. From the experimental viewpoint, the ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurement was used to identify the Cu position in FePtCu ternary ordered alloy. From a comparison with the calculated density of states curve, it was found that the Fe site of FePt ordered alloy replaced the Cu. The theoretical and experimental results in this article support the mechanism proposed in terms of the thermodynamic considerations in our previous article.