Paramagnetism of Cu3RE2W4O18 Semiconductors (RE = Gd, Dy-Er) |
| T. Grońa, E. Tomaszewiczb, H. Dudaa and S. Mazurc
aUniversity of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland bWest Pomeranian University of Technology, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, al. Piastów 42, 71-065 Szczecin, Poland cInternational Laboratory of High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures, Gajowicka 95, 53-529 Wrocław, Poland |
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| Cu3RE2W4O18 tungstates (RE = Gd, Dy-Er) are paramagnets in the temperature range 4.2-300 K visible also in the absence of the energy losses in the curve of the imaginary part of magnetic susceptibility, χ''. The negative values of the paramagnetic Curie-Weiss temperature, θ, may suggest the weak antiferromagnetic coupling below 4.2 K. The temperature independent component of magnetic susceptibility has a positive value indicating a domination of the Van Vleck contribution. Calculations of the effective number of the Bohr magnetons revealed that the orbital contribution to the magnetic moment comes mainly from the RE3+ ions. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.124.885 PACS numbers: 75.50.Pp, 75.20.-g, 75.30.Cr |