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57 Fe Mössbauer effect spectra were collected at 4.2 K for the Ho(Fe 1−x Co x ) 2 C15 Laves phases. The hyperfine interaction parameters, i.e. isomer shift, the magnetic hyperfine field and the quadrupole interaction parameter, were determined for the individual Fe/Co nearest neighbourhoods of iron atoms and also as average values for the sample as bulk. As a result of Fe/Co substitution, Slater-Pauling-type dependences for magnetic hyperfine fields corresponding to both the local area and the sample as bulk were observed, and a linear correlation between the local magnetic hyperfine field and the average magnetic hyperfine field was observed. Magnetic moments of atoms were obtained from band structure calculations using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The magnetic hyperfine field obtained from the experiment correlates linearly (but separately for weak and strong ferromagnetic areas) with the magnetic moment calculated per transition metal atom.

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Synthesized, x-ray studied Ho(Fe 1−x Co x ) 2 compounds (x = 0-1) have a pure cubic Fd3m, C15, MgCu 2 -type crystal phase. The unit cell parameter decreases nonlinearly with the composition parameter x. Mössbauer effect spectra collected at 77 K for the Ho(Fe 1−x Co x ) 2 series were composed of a number of locally originated subspectra due to random Fe/Co nearest neighbourhoods. Hyperfine interaction parameters, i.e. the isomer shift, the magnetic hyperfine field and the quadrupole interaction parameter, were determined from the fitting procedure of the spectra for the individual nearest neighbourhoods and also as average values for the sample as bulk. As a result of Fe/Co substitution, Slater-Pauling-type dependences for magnetic hyperfine fields corresponding to both the local area and the sample as bulk were observed. A correlation between the local magnetic hyperfine fields and the average magnetic hyperfine fields was noticed, and this was related to weak and strong ferromagnetism of the transition metal sublattice. The obtained magnetic hyperfine fields were compared to analogous data known for compounds with other rare earths. A numerical formula for describing the magnetic hyperfine field as a function of the composition parameter x and rare earth spin S was proposed.

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