Abstract
The crystal structures of gadolinium, dysprosium, and erbium metals have been determined over a wide temperature range. The metals are hexagonal close packed and the unit axis contracts nearly linearly with decreasing temperature, whereas the unit axis exhibits an abnormal expansion with decreasing temperature below magnetic transformations of the metals. The behavior is believed to be associated with the magnetic properties of the metals.
- Received 24 February 1954
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.94.1140
©1954 American Physical Society