Polymorphic nanowires of magnetic shape memory MnAs

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2010-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1110v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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For nanostructured materials, strain is of fundamental importance in stabilizing a specific crystallographic phase, modifying electronic properties, and in consequence their magnetism when it applies. Here we describe a magnetic shape memory alloy in which nanostructure confinement strain influences the crystallographic phase and the electronic and magnetic properties of the resulting nanowires. We use first-principles calculations on shape memory MnAs nanostructures to study the influence of strain on crystal phases, which arises from surfaces. We show that MnAs nanowires down to two nanometers can be stable in a new crystal phase different from bulk hexagonal and induced by one-dimensionality. The changes between structures through use of strain require the existence of twin domains. Our analysis suggests that the strain-induced structural transition, demonstrated here in MnAs compounds, could be extended to other (magnetic) shape memory nanowire systems for applications ranging from mechanical to magneto-electronic devices.

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