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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
In this work the rare-earth anisotropy in the rare-earth - transition metal intermetallic compounds is investigated by studying the temperature-induced spin reorientation phenomena on aligned powder samples and by analyzing the temperature dependence of the magnetization measured along different principal axes of single crystals. From such investigations the crystalline-electric-field parameters of the rare-earth ions in these compounds have been derived. The results on different hard magnetic materials of the compositions R2Fe14B, RFe11 and their substituted compounds as well as R2Co17 are summarized.