Accelerated discovery and design of Fe-Co-Zr magnets with tunable magnetic anisotropy through machine learning and parallel computing

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Auteurs principaux: Xia, Weiyi, Moraru, Maxim, Li, Ying Wai, Liao, Timothy, Chelikowsky, James R., Wang, Cai-Zhuang
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author Xia, Weiyi
Moraru, Maxim
Li, Ying Wai
Liao, Timothy
Chelikowsky, James R.
Wang, Cai-Zhuang
author_facet Xia, Weiyi
Moraru, Maxim
Li, Ying Wai
Liao, Timothy
Chelikowsky, James R.
Wang, Cai-Zhuang
contents Rare earth (RE)-free permanent magnets, as alternative substitutes for RE-containing magnets for sustainable energy technologies and modern electronics, have attracted considerable interest. We performed a comprehensive search for new hard magnetic materials in the ternary Fe-Co-Zr space by leveraging a scalable, machine learning-assisted materials discovery framework running on GPU-enabled exascale computing resources. This framework integrates crystal graph convolutional neural network (CGCNN) machine learning (ML) method with first-principles calculations to efficiently navigate the vast composition-structure space. The efficiency and accuracy of the ML approach enable us to reveal 9 new thermodynamically stable ternary Fe-Co-Zr compounds and 81 promising low-energy metastable phases with their formation energies within 0.1 eV/atom above the convex hull. The predicted compounds span a wide range of crystal symmetries and magnetic behaviors, providing a rich platform for tuning functional properties. Based on the analysis of site-specific magnetic properties, we show that the Fe6Co17Zr6 compound obtained from our ML discovery can be further optimized by chemical doping. Chemical substitutions lead to a ternary Fe5Co18Zr6 phase with a strong anisotropy of K1 = 1.1 MJ/m3, and a stable quaternary magnetic Fe5Co16Zr6Mn4 compound.
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spellingShingle Accelerated discovery and design of Fe-Co-Zr magnets with tunable magnetic anisotropy through machine learning and parallel computing
Xia, Weiyi
Moraru, Maxim
Li, Ying Wai
Liao, Timothy
Chelikowsky, James R.
Wang, Cai-Zhuang
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Rare earth (RE)-free permanent magnets, as alternative substitutes for RE-containing magnets for sustainable energy technologies and modern electronics, have attracted considerable interest. We performed a comprehensive search for new hard magnetic materials in the ternary Fe-Co-Zr space by leveraging a scalable, machine learning-assisted materials discovery framework running on GPU-enabled exascale computing resources. This framework integrates crystal graph convolutional neural network (CGCNN) machine learning (ML) method with first-principles calculations to efficiently navigate the vast composition-structure space. The efficiency and accuracy of the ML approach enable us to reveal 9 new thermodynamically stable ternary Fe-Co-Zr compounds and 81 promising low-energy metastable phases with their formation energies within 0.1 eV/atom above the convex hull. The predicted compounds span a wide range of crystal symmetries and magnetic behaviors, providing a rich platform for tuning functional properties. Based on the analysis of site-specific magnetic properties, we show that the Fe6Co17Zr6 compound obtained from our ML discovery can be further optimized by chemical doping. Chemical substitutions lead to a ternary Fe5Co18Zr6 phase with a strong anisotropy of K1 = 1.1 MJ/m3, and a stable quaternary magnetic Fe5Co16Zr6Mn4 compound.
title Accelerated discovery and design of Fe-Co-Zr magnets with tunable magnetic anisotropy through machine learning and parallel computing
topic Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22627