Thermal variation of the lattice parameters, magnetic susceptibility and magnetization of a Dy5Pd2 single crystal has been measured. The single crystal obtained by the Czochralski method crystallized in the cubic Dy5Pd2 type structure. The compound exhibits two characteristic temperatures. The former equals about 40 K, and the latter about 20 K, being connected with the complex ordering of the rare earth sublattice and the reorientation process of the magnetic moments, respectively.
The subject of the paper is lead free bismuth layer structure oxides (1-x)Bi3TiNbO9-xBaBi2N2O9(x=0; 1; 2; 3 mol). The influence of Bi3TiNbO9/BaBi2Nb2O9 ratio on dielectric and structural properties was studied in a wide range of temperatures. Change in the ratio causes a decrease in the maximum value of dielectric permittivity and shifts the temperature of ε`max to low values, leading to linear decreasing of average grain size and linear increasing of ceramics density. These results indicate an augment of the packing degree and the participation of pores are significantly decreased with the increase of BaBi2Nb2O9compound intake. Moreover, for 0.7Bi3TiNbO9-0.3BaBi2Nb2O9 ceramics the dielectric phase transition is broadened and the properties characteristic for the ferroelectric relaxor appear.