Mössbauer Studies of Iron-Rare Earth Intermetallics
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 39 (2), 1323
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1656279
Abstract
The Mössbauer effect has been used to study the hyperfine field at the Fe sites of DyFe2, HoFe2, ErFe2, TbFe2, and SmFe2. The last three of these each show two superimposed hyperfine spectra with an intensity ratio of about 3:1. A similar result was found for ZrFe2 and TmFe2 by Wertheim et al.,1 who showed that it was consistent with the magnetization lying along a (111) direction. In DyFe2 and HoFe2 however we find only one Fe hyperfine spectrum at room temperature; it is shown that this would be expected if the magnetization is along a (100) direction. An explanation of these results is given on the basis of a simple ferromagnetic (antiferromagnetic) model for the light (heavy) rare earth intermetallics in which the direction of magnetization is determined by the easy direction for the rare earth ion. The hyperfine fields at the Fe and Dy sites in DyFe2 have also been measured as a function of temperature. This parallels the work of Cohen2 on TmFe2 and allows a comparison of the rare earth‐iron exchange in these intermetallics.Keywords
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