Skip to main content
OSTI.GOVU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

Magnetic properties of some rare earth silicides of the type RFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/

Conference · · AIP (Am. Inst. Phys.) Conf. Proc.; (United States)
OSTI ID:7317835
 [1]; ; ;
  1. Univ. of Pittsburgh
+ Show Author Affiliations

RFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/ compounds (where R = Rare Earth, Y or Th) crystallize in tetragonal BaAl/sub 4/-type structure. Magnetic properties of these compounds with R = Y, Tb, Ho and Er have been examined in the temperature range 4.2 to 950/sup 0/K. TbFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/ exhibits a Neel temperature of 5.5/sup 0/K indicating that the rare earth sublattice orders antiferromagnetically. In HoFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/ and ErFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/, the rare earth sublattice does not order at temperatures down to 4.2/sup 0/K. The iron sublattice orders magnetically at nearly 800/sup 0/K in all the compounds investigated. Saturation magnetization studies on YFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/ indicate partial ordering of iron moments confirming earlier work that a majority of iron atoms are diamagnetic. Crystal field interactions seem to be significant in TbFe/sub 2/Si/sub 2/.

OSTI ID:
7317835
Journal Information:
AIP (Am. Inst. Phys.) Conf. Proc.; (United States), Journal Name: AIP (Am. Inst. Phys.) Conf. Proc.; (United States) Vol. 34; ISSN APCPC
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Magnetic behavior of some rare earth germanides of the type RGe/sub 2/Fe/sub 2/. [R = Pr, Gd, Tb, Er, Th]
Conference · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1975 · AIP (Am. Inst. Phys.) Conf. Proc.; (United States) · OSTI ID:7345678
Curie temperatures of amorphous RFe/sub 2/ alloys
Conference · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1975 · AIP (Am. Inst. Phys.) Conf. Proc.; (United States) · OSTI ID:7359091
Structural and magnetic properties of RFe[sub 6]Ge[sub 6] (R = Y, Gd, Tb, Er)
Conference · Mon Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) · OSTI ID:6665591

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360104* -- Metals & Alloys-- Physical Properties
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS
CRYSTAL LATTICES
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
CRYSTALLIZATION
HIGH TEMPERATURE
IRON COMPOUNDS
IRON SILICIDES
LOW TEMPERATURE
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
MEDIUM TEMPERATURE
NEEL TEMPERATURE
ORDER PARAMETERS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS
SILICIDES
SILICON COMPOUNDS
TETRAGONAL LATTICES
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
THORIUM COMPOUNDS
THORIUM SILICIDES
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
ULTRALOW TEMPERATURE
VERY LOW TEMPERATURE
YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS
YTTRIUM SILICIDES