Magnetic and Mössbauer Studies of a New Compound YFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>

Tadashi Sugihara, Masanori Abe, Takashi Katsura

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan · 1976 · 14 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

Magnetic and Mössbauer measurements were done between 77 and 300 K on polycrystalline sample of YFe 2 O 4 (Y 3+ Fe 2+ Fe 3+ O 4 2- ). This compound shows an “induced parastic ferromagnetism”: Weak ferromagnetic moment (∼2 emu/g) was induced below 240 K by applying external field (∼7 kOe) and an uniaxial anisotropy was induced by cooling the sample from 300 K to 77 K in the presence of external field. Mössbauer spectrum of Fe 57 showed a magnetic pattern with internal field of ca. 460 kOe at 90 K, and showed a paramagnetic one at 300 K.

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