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Journal article

Magnetic properties of Cu2Cd1-zMnzGeSe4 and Cu2Cd1-zFezGeSe4 alloys

  • 1. Centro de Estudios de Semiconductores, Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Merida 5101 (Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of)
  • 2. Grupo de Investigacion en Quimica Estructural (GIQUE), Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela de Quimica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Apartado aereo 678, Bucaramanga (Colombia)

Description

Measurements of magnetic susceptibility χ have been made as a function of temperature in the range 2-300 K on polycrystalline samples of the Cu2Cd1-zMnzGeSe4 and Cu2Cd1-zFezGeSe4 alloy systems. Values of TN, the antiferromagnetic Neel temperature, have been obtained from the cusp in the χ vs. T curves. Values of the Curie-Weiss temperature θ and the Curie constant C have been determined from the 1/χ vs. T results. It has been found that, for each system, the orbital moment L is quenched. In the case of the Cu2Cd1-zFezGeSe4 system, an analysis was carried out in terms of a simple mean field theory, and values of exchange interaction parameters were determined from the measured TN and θ data

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2008.03.087

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2008.03.087;
PII
S0925-8388(08)00505-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
471
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 16-20
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.