Magnetism of ternary compounds RE6Fe13X; RE=Pr, Nd; X=Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, and Hg

Novel compounds RE6Fe13X (X=Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, Hg) have been synthesized by arc melting (Cu, Ag, Au) or by reaction sintering (Zn, Cd, Hg), followed by heat treatment at 550 or 600 °C up to 350 h in evacuated silica capsules. From room temperature x‐ray powder diffraction analyses the alloys were found to crystallize with the ordered Nd6Fe13Si type. The Curie point of all the compounds is found to lie around room temperature. Due to their low magnetization values a ferrimagnetic coupling within the Fe sublattice is suggested. A canted RE‐spin structure cannot be ruled out. 57Fe Mossbauer spectra were recorded from the samples with X=Ag and Au. Additionally, 197Au spectra were taken from the two Au‐containing compounds. The 57Fe spectra are composed of various subpatterns, originating from the different Fe sites and were found to be essentially unaffected by the specific element RE and X. In all cases under investigation the spectra could only be fitted under the assumption of an easy axis of magnetizatio...

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