Published April 30, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetic properties of TbRu4P12 studied by neutron diffraction

  • 1. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran (Japan)
  • 2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
  • 3. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Onoda 756-0884 (Japan)

Description

We have performed powder neutron diffraction measurements of filled skutterudite compound TbRu4P12 in order to investigate the magnetic structure of successive two magnetic transitions (TN=20K and T1=10K). Magnetic peaks appeared at (h,k,l) (h+k+l=odd) positions below TN, which indicate the presence of an antiferromagnetic ordering below TN. The data can be well explained assuming that spins on Tb atoms at corner and center of body-centered cubic unit cell are oriented in the opposite direction. Magnetic moment on Tb ions is estimated to be 8.3μB/Tb. TbRu4P12 is the first antiferromagnet with filled skutterudite structure confirmed by neutron diffraction

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.01.252;
PII
S0921-4526(05)00275-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
359-361
Journal Page Range
p. 859-861
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES '04
Dates
26-30 Jul 2004
Place
Karlsruhe (Germany)

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