Antiferromagnetic ordering in EuPtGe${}_3$ single crystal

The magnetic properties of single crystalline EuPtGe${}_3$, crystallizing in the non-centrosymmetric BaNiSn${}_3$-type crystal structure, have been studied by means of magnetisation, electrical resistivity, heat capacity and ${}^{151}$Eu M"ossbauer spectroscopy. The susceptibility and heat capacity data indicate a magnetic transition at $T_{\mathrm{N}}$ = 11,K. The M"ossbauer data confirm this conclusion, but evidence a slight first order character of the transition. Analysing the magnetisation data using a mean field model with two antiferromagnetically coupled sublattices allows to explain some aspects of the magnetic behaviour, and to derive the first and second neighbour exchange integrals in EuPtGe${}_3$.