Abstract
The magnetic measurements in detail, especially high field magnetic measurements up to 45 T, have been performed on a TbPd2Ge2 single crystal. The compound shows an antiferromagnetic ordering below TN=14 K. High field magnetization shows that the magnetic easy direction is the [110] direction in the basal plane. The easy magnetization is saturated above about 25 T at 1.3 K and reaches 9.0 μB/f.u. Multi-step metamagnetic processes appear within the basal plane; that is, three-step and five-step metamagnetic processes appear along the [110] and [100] directions, respectively. The [001] magnetization process is a one-step metamagnetic one. All transitions persist up to near TN. The B100–T and B110–T magnetic phase diagrams were constructed, where there are five and three ordered phases, respectively. The crystalline electric field effects were examined. On the basis of the effects, the magnetization behavior has been discussed.
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