M agnetostriction is generally considered as the change in dimension of materials under an applied external magnetic field. Magnetostrictive materials have attracted widespread attention due to their utilization in actuators, sensors, transducers, microelectromechanical systems and energy harvesting [1,2] . Among various magnetostrictive materials, the Tb-Dy-Fe alloys (known as Terfenol-D) and Fe-Ga alloys (known as Galfenol) are the two most promising materials. Compared to Terfenol-D, Fe-Ga alloys exhibit good combination advantages: (i) low saturation magnetic field (~100 Oe); (ii) moderate magnetostriction (~400 ppm); (iii) good mechanical properties; (iv) low cost; (v) high Curie temperature (T c >650 °C ) [3][4][5][6][7] . Therefore, since 2000, many studies on microstructure, magnetostrictive and mechanical properties of Fe-Ga alloys have been carried out.Fe-Ga single crystal alloys exhibit good robustness,