Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1594726 | Solid State Communications | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The crystal and magnetic structures of the R2CuIn3 (R=Tb,Dy,Ho and Er) compounds have been studied by X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. Moreover, the bulk magnetic properties have been investigated by magnetometric methods. All these compounds crystallize with the hexagonal CaIn2-type structure. At low temperatures they order antiferromagnetically with the Néel temperatures in the range from 37.6 K to 3.3 K found for R=Tb and Er, respectively. The magnetic structures can be described by the propagation vectors k=(kx,kx,0) with the value of kx varying with increasing number of 4f electrons.
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Authors
A. SzytuÅa, A. Arulraj, S. Baran, D. Kaczorowski, B. Penc, N. Stüsser,