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Chemical disorder driven reentrant spin cluster glass state formation and associated magnetocaloric properties of Nd 2 Ni 0.94 Si 2.94 .
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP 2018 March 8
In this work, we report the synthesis of a new ternary intermetallic compound, Nd2 Ni0.94 Si2.94 , that forms in single phase only in a defect crystal structure. The compound exhibits an antiferromagnetic transition below 7.2 K (TN ) followed by a spin cluster freezing behaviour below 2.85 K (Tf ), which makes the compound a reentrant spin cluster glass system. The detailed studies of dc and ac magnetization, heat capacity, non-equilibrium dynamical behaviour, viz., aging effect, temperature and field dependent magnetic relaxation and magnetic memory effect establish the compound to be a cluster-glass material below freezing temperature. The interplay between competing exchange coupling (c/a ≃ 1.04 ⇒ JNN ≃ JNNN ) and chemical disorder driven variation in the electronic environment among the Nd ions has been argued to be responsible for such a metastable state formation. A considerable value of MCE parameters (-ΔS ∼ 11.4 J kg-1 K-1 , RCP ∼ 160 J kg-1 and ΔTad ∼ 5.2 K for a field change of 70 kOe) is obtained for this magnetically frustrated glassy compound.
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