Texture Development in Electrodeposited Nanocrystalline Ni-Mn-Fe Alloys

SUMMARY

Ni-Mn-Fe alloys were electrodeposited from three compositionally altered Ni-Mn electrolytes containing a small amount of FeSO₄.(NH₄)₂SO₄.6H₂O (10gl⁻¹) Texture development in the resultant codeposits was investigated with opticical colour polarisation microscopy. Addition of Fe in the electrodeposited Ni-Mn system results in the development of additional textures. Most of the samples show three different types of textures though the texture types are characteristic of the bath composition and deposition CD.

Keywords:

• texture
• electrodeposition
• alloy
• nanocrystallinity
• crystal growth