Crystal Growth, Structure, Magnetic, and Transport Properties of TbRhIn5

• Published in: Inorganic chemistry Vol. 45; no. 12; pp. 4637 - 4641
• Main Authors: Williams, Willa M, Pham, Long, MaQuilon, Samuel, Moldovan, Monica, Fisk, Zachary, Young, David P, Chan, Julia Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 12-06-2006
• ISSN: 0020-1669; 1520-510X
• DOI: 10.1021/ic060185w

Single crystals of TbRhIn5 were synthesized using the flux growth method. TbRhIn5 adopts the HoCoGa5 structure type and crystallizes in the space group P4/mmm, Z = 1. Lattice parameters are a = 4.6000(6) Å, c = 7.4370(11) Å, and V = 157.29(6) Å3. Transport measurements show that TbRhIn5 is metallic (dρ /dT > 0). A sharp antiferromagnetic transition is observed at T N = 48 K in the susceptibility data for TbRhIn5, which is highly anisotropic when the field is oriented along the c axis and a − b plane of the crystal and has an average effective moment of 9.72 μB/Tb3+.