Published February 9, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetic interactions in Laves phases.. Heat capacity of PrNi2, GdNi2 and ErNi2

  • 1. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragon, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza (Spain)

Description

Heat capacity measurements of the intermetallic compounds PrNi2, GdNi2 and ErNi2 have been performed from 2 to 300 K. Magnetic ordering is observed for the Gd and Er compounds at 75.3 and 6.5 K respectively. PrNi2 and ErNi2 both show Schottky contributions coming from low energy levels. The heat capacity has been calculated with a model that takes into account the energy splitting of the ground multiplet due to the crystal electric field (CEF) and the exchange interaction in a molecular field approximation. The crystal field and exchange parameters have been deduced from our results. ((orig.))

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Journal Volume
140-144
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 841-842.
ISSN
0304-8853
CODEN
JMMMDC

Conference

Title
International conference on magnetism (ICM).
Dates
22-26 Aug 1994.
Place
Warsaw (Poland).