Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : Solid State Communications
Source : Solid State Communications, Elsevier Ltd (2016)
Keywords : Antiferromagnetic transition, Carbonates, Curie-Weiss temperature, Double layered structure, Dysprosium, Dysprosium compounds, Exchange and super-exchange, Magnetic properties, Magnetic susceptibility, Magnetically ordered material, magnetism, neodymium, Polycrystalline samples, Rare earths, Samarium, Structural and magnetic properties, Triangular arrangements
Campus : Amritapuri
School : School of Arts and Sciences
Center : Analytical Chemistry
Department : Sciences, Chemistry
Year : 2016
Abstract : Polycrystalline samples of rare-earth oxy-carbonates Ln 2O2CO3 (Ln=Nd, Sm, and Dy) are synthesized and their structural and magnetic properties are investigated. All of them crystallize in a hexagonal structure with space group P63/mmc. They form a double layered structure with frustrated triangular arrangement of rare-earth magnetic ions. An antiferromagnetic transition is observed at TN 1.25K,0.61K, and 1.21K for Nd2O2CO3, Sm2O2CO3, and Dy2O2CO3, respectively. From the analysis of magnetic susceptibility, the value of the Curie-Weiss temperature θCW is obtained to be 21.7K, 18K, and 10.6K for Nd2O2CO3, Sm2O2CO3, and Dy2O2CO3, respectively. The magnetic frustration parameter f(=|θCW|/TN) is calculated to be 17.4, 31, and 8.8 for Nd2O2CO3, Sm2O2CO3, and Dy2O2CO3, respectively, which indicates that Sm2O2CO3 is strongly frustrated compared to its Nd and Dy analogues. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
Cite this Research Publication : Ua Arjun, Brinda, Ka, Padmanabhan, Mb, and Nath, Ra, “Magnetic properties of layered rare-earth oxy-carbonates Ln2O2CO3 (Ln=Nd, Sm, and Dy)”, Solid State Communications, 2016.