Magnetization and specific heat of DyFe3(BO3)(4) single crystal

摘要

We present thermodynamic and magnetic studies of single crystalline DyFe3(BO3)(4). The data indicate an easy axis antiferromagnetic order below T-N similar to 38 K which we attribute to the Fe subsystem. The Dy subsystem remains paramagnetic down to the lowest investigated temperatures of 2 K, but it is polarized by the Fe spins due to a f-d interaction. External magnetic field leads to a spin-flop transition in the iron subsystem as well as to superposed magnetization in the Dy subsystem. The repopulation of two low-lying Kramers doublets in Dy3+ ions results in well defined Schottky anomalies in specific heat and magnetization.