Influence of Yttrium Substitution on the Electronic Structure and Magnetic Moment of Gd7-xYxPd3 (x=0, 1, 2, 3, 4)

Abstract

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of Gd7¡xYxPd3 (x = 0, 1, 2, 4) single crystals were examined. These compounds crystallized in the same crystal structure type (Th7Fe3) with the same c=a ratio of 0.63. A strongly anisotropic behavior of the magnetic and transport properties was found. Magnetic frustration and spin °uctuations on the palladium atoms are responsible for the complex magnetic properties of this ternary compound. As a part of current research we presented further characteristic of the Gd7¡xYxPd3 (x = 0, 1, 2, 4) single crystal.