Magnetic properties of Fe2P-type R6CoTe2 compounds (R=Gd–Er)статья
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Аннотация:The magnetic structure of the Fe2P-type R6CoTe2 phases (R=Gd–Er, space group P62m) has been
investigated through magnetization measurement and neutron powder diffraction. All phases
demonstrate high-temperature ferromagnetic and low-temperature transitions: TC = 220 K and
TCN = 180 K for Gd6CoTe2, TC = 174 K and TCN = 52 K for Tb6CoTe2, TC = 125 K and TCN = 26 K for Dy6CoTe2, TCN = 60 K and TN = 22 K for Ho6CoTe2 and TCN = 30 K and TN = 14 K for Er6CoTe2.
Between 174 and 52 K Tb6CoTe2 has a collinear magnetic structure with K0 = [0, 0, 0] and with magnetic moments along the c-axis, whereas below 52 K it adopts a non-collinear ferromagnetic one. Below 60 K the magnetic structure of Ho6CoTe2 is that of a non-collinear ferromagnet. The holmium magnetic components with a K0 = [0, 0, 0] wave vector are aligned ferromagneticaly along the c-axis,whereas the magnetic component with a K1=[1/2, 1/2, 0] wave vector are arranged in the ab plane. The low-temperature magnetic transition at 22 K coincides with the reorientation of the Ho magnetic component with the K0 vector from the collinear to the non-collinear state.
Below 30 K Er6CoTe2 shows an amplitude-modulate magnetic structure with a collinear
arrangement of magnetic components with K0=[0, 0, 0] and K1=[1/2, 1/2, 0]. The low-temperature magnetic transition at 14 K corresponds to the variation in the magnitudes of the MErK0 and MErK1 magnetic components.
In these phases, no local moment was detected on the cobalt site.
The magnetic entropy of Gd6CoTe2 increases from DSmag = -4.5 J/kg K at 220 K up to DSmag = -6.5 J/kg K at 180 K for the field change H = 0–5 T.