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| Author(s): |
Rafael Alejandro Cajacuri Merino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2007-04-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Hercilio Rodolfo Rechenberg;
Carlos Larica;
Jose Mestnik Filho;
Adilson Jesus Aparecido de Oliveira;
Helena Maria Petrilli
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| Advisor: | Hercilio Rodolfo Rechenberg |
| Abstract | |
The object of this research consists of investigating the structural, magnetic and hiperfine properties of the pseudobinar Laves phases compounds Hf(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2 and (Nb(1-x)Zr(x))Fe2. We prepared polycristaline samples alloys and for synthesis melting in the concentrations: x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 e 1.0, for the Hf(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2 and in the concentrations: x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 e 0.5 for (Nb(1-x)Zr(x))Fe2. We melted them in an arc furnace under pure Argon (99.999%) gas atmosphere. We investigated the cristaline structure of the alloys by the powder XRD technique, obtaining lattice parameters and confirming the structure of hexagonal phase C14 for the samples Hf(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2 in the concentrations 0.0 <= x <= 0.9 and also in all the other samples produced of (Nb(1-x)Zr(x))Fe2. We investigate the magnetic properties of Hf(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2 alloys bye the technique of magnetization at low temperatures and low magnetic field applied until 7 T and high magnetic field applied until 16 T. The susceptibility AC and DC at low magnetic fields and temperatures of 4.2 K until 300 indicated that alloys of concentrations 0.4 <= x < 0.8 show spin glass behavior, in x <= 0.3 they are magnetic clusters with short range interactions, and in x = 0.9 is superparamagnetic. The values of the magnetic moments for atom of Fe were calculated for all samples. We measured Mössbauer spectra of the same samples of Hf(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2 at room temperature, obtaning two sextets for the samples with x < 0.2 and two quadrupolar doublets for the other compositions, that would be attributed to the cristalographic sites 2a and 6h. Also the Mössbauer spectrum of the samples (Nb(1-x)Zr(x))Fe2 at temperature of 4.2 K without magnetic field applied and with magnetic field applied of 6 and 12 T, suggest that those compounds show coexisting ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases. We could note for the compound (Nb0.6Zr0.4)Fe2 a possible existence of the paramagnetic behavior in the Fe of the cristalographic site 2a, but the magnetic moment in this site is not zero. (AU) | |