Anomalous behavior of magnetostriction and magnetic ac-suseptibility of Gd1-xPrxCo5 polycrystals

Abstract

Magnetostriction and low field ac-susceptibility of polycrystalline Gd1-xPrxCo5 (x = 0, 0.1 and 0.5) alloys are measured in temperature region of 77-300 K. XRD patterns show that our samples are single phase. For x = 0 (GdCo5) there are no anomaly in temperature dependence of magnetostriction and ac-susceptibility curves. For x = 0.1 and 0.5 temperature dependence of ac-susceptibilities show easy-axes phase transitions. In the case of x = 0.1 sample, the easy-axes of magnetization changes from canted to axial (practically, hexagonal c-axis) direction as temperature increases, and ac-susceptibility of x = 0.5 sample shows two iterative transitions, first from basal to canted then canted to axial. Magnetostriction of Pr contained samples anomalously decreases at spin reorientation regions.

Keywords

• magnetostriction
• magnetic susceptibility
• magnetocrystalline anisotropy
• spin reorientation.