Aluminium – Iron – Vanadium

Gautam Ghosh, updated by Kostyantyn Korniyenko

Introduction

There is a number of reasons for the scientific interest in the phase relations in the Al-Fe-V system, particularly as alloys of this system have a potential for design and development of engineering alloys in diverse applications. Examples are the stabilization of the intermetallic phase Fe₃Al to higher temperatures, generating two-phase coherent (αδFe, V) (A2) + Fe₃Al (D0₃) microstructures, and application of the VFe₂Al compound belonging to the Heusler compounds. Compounds of this type possess many attractive properties, such as magneto-optical properties, shape memory effect, magnetocaloric, spin polarization and thermoelectric properties, as well as heavy-fermion behavior.