NICHOLLS, J T and DRESSELHAUS, G (1990) Magnetic properties of stage-1 CoCl2-graphite intercalation compounds diluted with MgCl2. Physical Review B, 41 (14).
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We report a detailed study of the dilution of the magnetic properties of stage-1 CoCl2-graphite intercalation compounds (GIC’s) with nonmagnetic MgCl2. The substitution of magnetic ions by nonmagnetic ions reduces the three-dimensional antiferromagnetic ordering temperature TN, and reduces the low-temperature transition field Ht that is a measure of the antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The intercalate layer in the stage-1 CoxMg1-xCl2-GIC’s fills only 85% of the available volume of the intercalate gallery. The extrapolated value of the Co concentration, xp=0.65, at which Ht and TN go to zero, suggests that the 15% concentration of voids is distributed randomly throughout the intercalate layer. It is proposed that for x≥0.65 there is a connected magnetic two-dimensional triangular lattice. Our indirect measurement of the in-plane intercalate distribution is in agreement with recent transmission-electron-microscopy studies that show there is a connected network of intercalate with a structural coherence length as large as 1 μm.
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