We have performed high-resolution neutron powder diffraction measurements on CeMn2Si2 and CeMn2Ge2 at temperatures between 12 and 550 K. Our measurements indicate that at high temperatures both compounds are paramagnetic. Below TN=380 K CeMn2Si2 becomes a collinear AF, with a structure similar to that reported by Siek et al. in which the magnetic propagation vector is τ=(0 0 1). CeMn2Ge2, on the other hand, exhibits two different magnetic transitions. At TN≊415 K there is a transition to a collinear AF phase characterized by the commensurate propagation wave vector τ=(1 0 1). At TC≊318 K there is a transition to a conical structure with a ferromagnetic component along the c axis and a helical component in the ab plane. The helical component is characterized by the incommensurate propagation vector τ=(1 0 1−qz), where qz is temperature dependent.
The magnetic susceptibility of Cr+0.2 at.% V and Cr+0.4 at.% V alloys (nominal concentrations) is found to show a sharp increase at the Neel temperature with increasing temperature and to obey a Curie-Weiss law in the paramagnetic phase up to 400 K, corresponding to a moment per V atom of about one Bohr magneton. The relation of these results to the behaviour of other physical properties of dilute CrV alloys is discussed.
The influence of Cr substitution by various metals (M=V, Mn, Fe, Cu and Al) on the magnetic state of the itinerant intermetallics La(Cr,M)Sb3 was studied by magnetization and magnetic susceptibility measurements up to 55 kG at 5 K and from 4.2 to 400 K, in a magnetic field of 1000 G, respectively. It was found that the Curie temperature (TC) and magnetization (M) of these compounds depend nonlinearly on the concentration, remaining in the vicinity of the values of TC and M measured for LaCrSb3. Curie temperatures and magnetization values at 55 kG are suppressed by Mn, Fe, V, and Cu, and have a slight maximum at low Al concentration (about 5%).
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