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Laboratory-Constructed Instrumentation for the Characterization of First and Higher-order Harmonics of Dynamic Susceptibility: A Low Cost AC Susceptometer

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AC susceptibility offers a very useful tool to probe spin dynamics in magnetic materials, superconductors, spin glasses, etc. A home built low cost AC susceptometer proved to be a useful setup to study such materials in an economic way. In this paper, we present the design and fabrication of a low field ac susceptibility measuring instrument (home-built) working down to liquid nitrogen temperature. This instrument offers susceptibility measurement in the frequency range of 1 Hz to 100 kHz and AC field up to 10 Oe. Moreover, in addition to first order, higher-order susceptibility can also be measured as a function of temperature, frequency, and field. Calibration has been done with Gd2O3. Measurement has been made on different samples to check the correctness of the data and presented in the last section of this paper.

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Bhatti, I.N., Pramanik, A.K. Laboratory-Constructed Instrumentation for the Characterization of First and Higher-order Harmonics of Dynamic Susceptibility: A Low Cost AC Susceptometer. Instrum Exp Tech 66, 103–110 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441223010050

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