TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.11.002
TI  - Single crystal growth of PrNiGe$_2$ compounds
PY  - 2023/06/05
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.11.002
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 11
SP  - 002
A1  - Ishiwatari, Kousei
AU  - Hoshii, Kaito
AU  - Ida, Keisuke
AU  - Ohashi, Masashi
AB  - We report on the magnetic characterization of a praseodym intermetallic PrNiGe$_2$.
Several single crystals are grown by the Czochralski method from Ni- deficient sample as the initial one. X-ray analysis of PrNi$_{0.8}$Ge$_2$ indicated the CeNiSi$_2$-type structure as the only phase.
The magnetic measurements clearly indicate that PrNi$_x$Ge$_2$ exhibits a ferromagnetic orderings at 12 K, which is independent with of composition of Ni.  A strong anisotropy along the three principal crystallographic directions was observed, reflecting the orthorhombic symmetry of the crystal structure. The $b$-axis was found to be the easy axis of magnetization.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.11.002,
	title={{Single crystal growth of PrNiGe$_2$ compounds}},
	author={Kousei Ishiwatari and Kaito Hoshii and Keisuke Ida and Masashi Ohashi},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={002},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.11.002},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.11.002},
}