Magnetic and structural properties of Sc(Fe1−xSix)2 Laves phases studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy and neutron diffraction

• Authors: Marek Wiertel , Zbigniew Surowiec , Mieczysław Budzyński , Jan Sarzyński , Anatoly I. Beskrovnyi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the presented paper is to study an influence of replacement of Fe atoms by Si atoms in quasibinary Sc(Fe1−xSix)2 Laves phases on their structural and magnetic properties. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and neutron diffraction (ND) measurements carried out at different temperatures from 4.3 K up to about 700 K revealed that samples were single phase with cubic C15 structure for Si concentration x from 0.05 to 0.20 and hexagonal C14 structure for higher concentration. The results of 57Fe Mössbauer measurements showed that the Sc(Fe1−xSix)2 compounds with x ≤ 0.30 are ferrimagnetic at 4.3 K. At temperature 80 K in the samples with x = 0.20 and 0.30, a magnetic cluster spin-glass state has been observed, as ferrimagnetic long-range order disappears. Such picture was supported by the results of ND measurements carried out at 8 K, which confirmed the lack of long-range order for x above 0.10 and an occurrence of hyperfine field distributions in the corresponding Mössbauer spectra. At room temperature, samples with x ≥ 0.20 became paramagnetic. A substitution of Si atoms for Fe ones leads to a decreasing of mean values of hyperfine magnetic fields in samples under investigation. From the neutron diffraction pattern analysis of Sc(Fe0.90Si0.10)2Fe magnetic moment was determined as to be equal to 1.5 μB at 8 K. Combining this result with a value of hyperfine magnetic field on 57Fe probes, the hyperfine coupling constant A in Sc(Fe0.90Cu0.10)2 phases is estimated at about 11.6 T/μB at 8 K.

Keywords

EN

hyperfine fields; Mössbauer effect; neutron diffraction; quasibinary Laves phase

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Nukleonika
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 155-160

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2015

online

12 - 3 - 2015

received

18 - 6 - 2014

accepted

5 - 11 - 2014

Contributors

author

Marek Wiertel

• Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 1. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej Sq., 20-031 Lublin, Poland, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone]

author

Zbigniew Surowiec

• Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 1. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej Sq., 20-031 Lublin, Poland, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone]

author

Mieczysław Budzyński

• Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 1. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej Sq., 20-031 Lublin, Poland, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone]

author

Jan Sarzyński

• Institute of Physics, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 1. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej Sq., 20-031 Lublin, Poland, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone]

author

Anatoly I. Beskrovnyi

• Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/nuka-2015-0032