Laves phases: a review of their functional and structural applications and an improved fundamental understanding of stability and properties

F Stein, A Leineweber - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
Laves phases with their comparably simple crystal structure are very common intermetallic
phases and can be formed from element combinations all over the periodic table resulting in …

Laves phases: superstructures induced by coloring and distortions

ECJ Gießelmann, R Pöttgen… - … für anorganische und …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The structural chemistry of Laves phases, especially with respect to their superstructures
induced by coloring and distortions is discussed. Starting from the three classical Laves …

Large magnetocaloric effect in a ternary Laves phase compoundHo2Rh3Ge

B Sahu, SP Xhakaza, BM Sondezi, AM Strydom - Intermetallics, 2024 - Elsevier
Structural and magnetic properties of an intermetallic Ho 2 Rh 3 Ge compound have been
investigated in this paper. We report the observation of large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in …

On the RE2TiAl3 (RE = Y, Gd–Tm, Lu) Series—The First Aluminum Representatives of the Rhombohedral Mg2Ni3Si Type Structure

ECJ Gießelmann, S Engel, IM El Saudi, L Schumacher… - Solids, 2023 - mdpi.com
Several ternary rare-earth metals containing titanium aluminum intermetallics in the RE
2TiAl3 series (RE= Y, Gd–Lu) have been synthesized from the elements using arc-melting …

Structural, electronic, magnetic, optical, thermoelectric and thermodynamic properties of R2Rh3Ge (R= Gd and Er)

MY Raïâ, R Masrour, A Jabar, M Hamedoun… - Journal of Physics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The structural, electronic, magnetic, optical, thermoelectric and thermodynamic properties of
the Gd 2 Rh 3 Ge and Er 2 Rh 3 Ge ternary rhombohedral Laves phases compounds were …

Crystal structure, electronic structure and phase stability of the Cu2-xMxCd (M= Zn, Ga, Ge, Sn) pseudo-binary Laves phases: effect of valence electron concentration

N Roy, SK Kuila, A Mondal, R Sikdar, S Ghanta… - Journal of Solid State …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Starting from Cu 2 Cd, a series of compounds with the approximate formula Cu 2-x
M x Cd (x​∼​ 0.1–1)(M​=​ Zn, Ga, Ge, Sn) were prepared by high temperature solid state …

Synthesis, Physical, and Magnetocaloric Properties of MgZn2-Type Gd2Al3Rh

F Eustermann, F Stegemann, O Janka - Inorganic Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Gd2Al3Rh was synthesized from the elements using arc-melting techniques, along with
subsequent annealing. The title compound adopts the hexagonal MgZn2 type structure …

Isopointal intermetallics: the cP24, dca phases as a representative set of examples, along with their vacancy-ordered variants β-Mn and SrSi2

O Janka, R Pöttgen - Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 2024 - degruyter.com
The crystal-chemical relationship of the cubic Laves phase MgCu2 (space group F d 3‾ m,
cF 24) with the ternary phases Cd2Cu3In, Na2Au3Al, Mg2Rh3P, Li2Pd3B, Ag2Pd3S …

Magnetic phase transitions and magnetocaloric effect in ternary rhombohedral Laves phases of Gd2Rh3Ge and Er2Rh3Ge

B Sahu, JY Law, AM Strydom, V Franco… - Journal of Magnetism and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic phase transitions in two Mg 2 Ni 3 Si-type of Gd 2 Rh 3 Ge and Er 2 Rh 3 Ge
compounds (space group R 3‾ m, hR18) belonging to rhombohedral Laves phases are …

Magnetic phase transition and large cryogenic magnetocaloric effect in the gallides RE2Rh3Ga (RE= Gd, Dy, Ho, Er)

Y Na, MK Reimann, S Seidel, Y Zhang… - Journal of Magnetism and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We herein provide an experimental investigation of the gallides RE 2 Rh 3 Ga (RE= Gd, Dy,
Ho, Er) regarding their magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effect (MCE). All of these RE …