Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1446212 | Acta Materialia | 2013 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We have synthesized the Dy2Fe17 alloy with an unconventional crystal structure (R3¯m space group). Neutron powder thermo-diffraction and X-ray powder diffraction under high pressure (up to 15 GPa) show that the rhombohedral crystal structure is stable. Likewise, the alloy with the usual hexagonal crystal structure (P63/mmc), the rhombohedral variant of Dy2Fe17 compound, exhibits a collinear ferrimagnetic order below the Curie temperature (TC â 363 K), with antiparallel mutual alignment of the Dy and Fe sublattices. Additionally, we have observed two distinctive issues related to magneto-volume anomalies: (i) the pressure dependence of the cell volume at room temperature shows the existence of a critical pressure at which the compound is no longer ferrimagnetic; and (ii) the cell volume shows invar-like behaviour in a wide temperature range (2-290 K), with a minimum at T â 380 K. The spontaneous volume magnetostriction reaches ÏS = 1.6 Ã 10â2 at 2 K that decreases to zero at T â 500 K (â1.4 TC), which is associated with the existence of short-range magnetic correlations.
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Authors
Pablo Álvarez-Alonso, Pedro Gorria, José L. Sánchez Llamazares, Gabriel J. Cuello, Inés Puente Orench, Jorge Sánchez Marcos, Gastón Garbarino, M. Reiffers, Jesús A. Blanco,