The three terminal capacitance dilatometer is the most sensitive means for measuring the thermal expansion of solid samples at low temperatures. A measuring system based around capacitance dilatometry has been automated to provide a means of routine data collection of length changes in samples in the temperature range 1.5 K to 300 K. The dilatometer has been used in conjunction with magnetisation and neutron scattering measurements to investigate members from rare earth alloys as part of a wider study of the magnetic and lattice properties of isostructural rare earth alloy series, in particular the rare earth alloy series RE2AgIn (RE = Tb, Ho and Er) and REPtIn (RE = Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Er). Two samples have been investigated using thermal expansion, Tb2AgIn and TbPtIn. Both order magnetically at temperatures around 50 K and phase transitions corresponding to the ordering were observed using the capacitance dilatometer for the samples. The data for the alloy series is presented and discussed with a view to describing the complex nature of these alloy systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:263619 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Watson, Kevin Campbell |
| Publisher | Loughborough University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27436 |
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