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A Mössbauer Effect Study Of The Microscopic Magnetic Properties Of Nd₂Fe₁₇ And Nd₂Fe₁₇N₂.₆, Gary J. Long, Oran Allan Pringle, Fernande Grandjean, K. H. J. Buschow

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The Mössbauer spectra of Nd₂Fe₁₇ and Nd ₂Fe₁₇N_2.6 have been measured at various temperatures between 78 and 295 K and analyzed with a model that is based on the Wigner-Seitz cell environment of each iron site, the orientation of the magnetization, and the magnetic moments as determined from either neutron-diffraction measurements or band-structure calculations. Upon nitrogenation of Nd₂Fe₁₇, the weighted average isomer shift increases from 0.060 to 0.164 mm/s and further the isomer shifts of the four crystallographically distinct sites increase in agreement with the increase observed in their …