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World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics, 2012, 2, 61-65 61 /10.4236/wjcmp.2012.22011 Published Online May 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjcmp) The Effect of Antimony Substitution on the Magnetic and Structural Properties of Fe Si Sb Alloys 0.75–x 0.25 x Imaddin A. Al-Omari1*, M. R. Anantharaman2 1Department of Physics, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman; 2Department of Physics, Cochin University of Sci- ence and Technology, Cochin, India. * Email: ialomari@.om, ialomari@ Received December 28th, 2011; revised February 8th, 2012; accepted February 25th, 2012 ABSTRACT The results of the investigation of the magnetic and structural properties of the alloy system Fe Si Sb , where x = 0, 0.75–x 0.25 x 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, and 0.25 synthesized by mechanical alloying followed by heat treatment are described. The x-ray diffraction reveals that all samples crystallize in the DO3-type cubic phase structure. Substituting Fe by Sb led to a de- crease in the lattice constant and the unit cell volume. The magnetic properties are investigated by vibrating sample magnetometer and show that all the samples are ferromagnetically ordered at room temperature. The Curie temperature is found to decrease linearly from (850 ± 5) K for the parent alloy to (620 ± 5) K for the alloyith x = 0.25. The satura- tion magnetizations at room temperature and at 100 K are found to decrease with increasing the antimony concentration. The above results indicate that Sb dissolves in the cubic structure of this alloy system. Keywords: Lattice Constant; Curie Temperature; S