Abstract
Abstract Fourteen X-ray-pure intermetallic compounds RE 10 TCd3 (RE = Ho, Er, Tm, Lu; T = Fe, Co, Ni, Ru) and Y10FeCd3 were obtained through high-frequency melting of the elements in sealed niobium tubes and subsequent annealing in a muffle furnace. They adopt the Er10FeCd3 structure, a ternary ordered version of the Co2Al5 type. Temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility measurements show Pauli paramagnetism for the lutetium compounds Lu10FeCd3, Lu10CoCd3, and Lu10RuCd3. The RE 10 TCd3 phases with holmium, erbium, and thulium show Curie–Weiss paramagnetism and the experimental magnetic moments match with the free ion values of RE 3+. All these compounds order antiferromagnetically. The highest Néel temperature was observed for the holmium compounds, e.g. 46.5 K for Ho10RuCd3. Some of the RE 10 TCd3 phases show field-induced spin reorientations. A 57Fe Mössbauer spectrum of Y10FeCd3 confirms the single crystallographic iron site.
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