Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1799092 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The garnets remain one of the most studied classes of materials due to their technological applications. While many studies have focused on the low temperature properties of rare-earth containing garnets such as Gd3Ga5O12, there are relatively few studies concerning the low-temperature magnetic properties of garnets with lighter rare-earth ions such as Sm3+, with the majority of those studies having been done on powders only. Sm3Ga5O12 was prepared via standard solid-state reaction and a single crystal was grown using the floating zone technique. Magnetic susceptibility and low temperature heat capacity measurements show that Sm3Ga5O12 orders below 1 K and behaves like an effective S=1/2 system with negligible anisotropy.
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Authors
A.Z. Sharma, H.J. Silverstein, A.M. Hallas, G.M. Luke, C.R. Wiebe,