Crystallographic and magnetic properties of UPdSn

A single crystal of the intermetallic compound UPdSn has been studied by means of neutron diffraction using the white-beam Laue diffractometer (single-crystal diffractometer) at the Los Alamos spallation neutron source. Data were taken in the paramagnetic phase at 55 K and just below the Néel point...

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Published in:Journal of applied physics 1993-05, Vol.73 (10), p.6072-6074
Main Authors: JOHNSON, S. W, ROBINSON, R. A, NAKOTTE, H, BRÜCK, E, DE BOER, F. R, LARSON, A. C
Format: Article
Language:English
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360104 > Metals & Alloys-- Physical Properties
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS
ALLOYS
Applied sciences
COHERENT SCATTERING
Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
CRYSTALS
DIFFRACTION
DOMAIN STRUCTURE
Exact sciences and technology
INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
Magnetic properties and materials
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Metals. Metallurgy
MONOCRYSTALS
NEUTRON DIFFRACTION
PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Physics
SCATTERING
Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials (including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source x-ray scattering, etc.)
TIN COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS 360102 > Metals & Alloys-- Structure & Phase Studies
URANIUM COMPOUNDS
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Summary:A single crystal of the intermetallic compound UPdSn has been studied by means of neutron diffraction using the white-beam Laue diffractometer (single-crystal diffractometer) at the Los Alamos spallation neutron source. Data were taken in the paramagnetic phase at 55 K and just below the Néel point at 37 K. The crystallographic data refine well within the space group P63mc and confirm the results obtained previously on powders, namely that the Pd and Sn atoms are ordered. At low temperature, UPdSn undergoes two phase transitions at 40 and 25 K to complicated noncollinear antiferromagnetic structures. All three pairs of magnetic domains are observed, in roughly equal populations, in the intermediate-temperature orthorhombic magnetic structure (phase I). A uranium moment of 0.863μB and canting angles φ=56.51° and θ=21.42° were obtained, in reasonable agreement with previous powder neutron data for this temperature. The observed form factor yields an orbital-to-spin moment ratio −μL/μS=2.6 which is characteristic of the trivalent f3 configuration.
ISSN:0021-8979
1089-7550
DOI:10.1063/1.353473