Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

NEEL: Phase Change in Chromium at the Néel Temperature

The first-order phase transition of Chromium between antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic states is studied. Antiferromagnetic thin-films are key components in the multilayer devices in use for magnetic-disk data storage systems. Louis Néel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 for antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism.


Write-Up in PDF Format or Microsoft Word Format.

(The experiment is currently located in MP239; last write-up revision: January 2018.)

Additional Resources:

The Labview program used to take data in this experiment: Neel Temperature.vi (Last updated December 2006). Another Labview program which should be in a sub-directory called “Neel LabView Files” is Save Data Files.vi

Photo of Neel apparatus

The Neel Temperature setup, showing the beaker which contains the Chromium sample on the far left.

Last updated on 5 January 2018