Role of Annealing Temperatures of Fe2CoSn Half-Metallic Heusler Alloy Nanoparticles for Spintronics Applications

Fe2CoSn Heusler alloy nanoparticles were synthesized using co-precipitation method. The prepared samples were annealed at various temperatures (700 °C, 750 °C, 800 °C, 850 °C, and 900 °C) in N2 atmosphere. The structural properties of Fe2CoSn Heusler alloy nanoparticles were analyzed using powder X-ray diffraction techniques. The structure of the Fe2CoSn Heusler alloy nanoparticles was found to be FCC superlattice of L21 disorder structure. The grain size of Fe2CoSn Heusler alloy nanoparticles was found to be 4.82 nm for 800 °C annealed samples and it gets increased for high annealing temperatures. Dislocation density was calculated to be 4.304 × 1016 m−2 for 800 °C annealed samples with low coercivity, low exchange bias, high susceptibility, and high saturation values.