CRYSTAL AND MAGNETIC-STRUCTURES OF U2NI2SN INVESTIGATED BY NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION AND SN-119 MOSSBAUER-SPECTROSCOPY

Citation
F. Bouree et al., CRYSTAL AND MAGNETIC-STRUCTURES OF U2NI2SN INVESTIGATED BY NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION AND SN-119 MOSSBAUER-SPECTROSCOPY, Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 138(3), 1994, pp. 307-313
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Material Science","Physics, Condensed Matter
ISSN journal
03048853
Volume
138
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
307 - 313
Database
ISI
SICI code
0304-8853(1994)138:3<307:CAMOUI>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
The U2Ni2Sn stannide has been studied by means of neutron powder diffr action and Mossbauer spectroscopy. This compound crystallizes in the t etragonal P4/mbm space group in an ordered version of the U3Si2-type s tructure and orders antiferromagnetically below T-N = 25(1) K. At T = 1.5 K the magnetic structure is collinear with uranium magnetic moment (1.05(5)mu(B)) perpendicular to the tetragonal c-axis. Sn-119 Mossbau er spectroscopy at 4.2 K shows that tin atoms see a zero hyperfine fie ld, in agreement with the proposed antiferromagnetic order.