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High-damping alloys with the magnetomechanical damping mechanism, based on the Fe—Cr system, have been studied. It has been shown that the direct investigation of the magnetic domain structure in the bulk materials using the neutron refraction method allows one to obtain important quanti- tative information concermng the formation of the high-damping state. The dependence of the damping capacity on the average magnetic domain size was found to possess a sharp maximum, thus revealing a range of the optimal domain sizes. The results obtained are important for the development of the technology of high-damping materials.

A systematic study of temperature dependence of magnetic inelastic neutron scattering for itinerant antiferromagnet Mn(12%Ge) is presented. At low temperatures the experimental data are well described in terms of damped spin waves. This description becomes insufficient at least 150 K below TN. In the temperature range 200-400 K the integrated intensity of distribution for energy transfer 13 THz increases by one third and the shape of the deconvoluted neutron scattering cross-section changes. These changes suggest that ca. 200 K below TN an additional contribution to the inelastic neutron scattering starts to appear and that its origin is different from spin waves.