Abstract
Powder neutron thermodiffraction studies have allowed a precise determination of the magnetic phase diagrams of the series structure) with the occurrence of two different ordering temperatures and correlated, respectively, to antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic couplings. At low iron contents and for all R elements, the metal sublattices exhibit antiferromagnetic (AF) configurations lying in the basal plane (a, b). The R magnetic moments order ferromagnetically at very low temperature only with c as an easy axis. For higher iron concentrations, the magnetic moment arrangements change progressively with ferromagnetic (F) components collinear with the c axis superimposed on the AF components. For the Curie temperature coming from the F components of the and R sublattices increases markedly. In addition, and the AF components both decrease with x.
- Received 7 February 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.144426
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