Magnetic anisotropy of YFe3 compound
Abstract
Magnetization curves of an YFe3 single crystal were measured along the basal plane and the c-axis within the temperature range of 2-600 K. Their analysis provided temperature dependencies of the parameter p = (Mep -Mha) /Mep characterizing saturation magnetization anisotropy and magnetocrystalline anisotropy constants K1 and K2. The latter was obtained using the modified Sucksmith-Thompson method and the numeric technique of approximation which takes into account slight misorientation between applied magnetic field and the hard magnetization axis allowing to describe magnetization curves accurately.
- Publication:
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Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Pub Date:
- March 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jmmm.2016.10.133
- Bibcode:
- 2017JMMM..426..740B
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic anisotropy;
- Magnetization anisotropy;
- Single crystal