AIP Advances (Apr 2022)

Physical properties of the new intermetallic compound Pr2AgSi3

  • R. Djoumessi Fobasso,
  • B. Sahu,
  • A. M. Strydom

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000357
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
pp. 045306 – 045306-4

Abstract

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We present the magnetic and physical properties of the new Pr2AgSi3 polycrystalline compound. The sample was synthesized by arc-melting method and crystallizes in the tetragonal α-ThSi2 structure with centrosymmetric space group I41/amd. The magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and electrical resistivity measurements indicate a bulk ferromagnetic ordering below the transition temperature Tc ≈ 13 K. An irreversibility behavior is observed in the temperature dependence of the dc-magnetization with the zero-field-cooled curve.