In this paper,magnetic and dielectric properties of the quasi-two-dimensional triangular-lattice system CuCrS2 and its B-site-diluted analogs CuAl1-xCrxS2（x = 0.01 and x = 0.02） are investigated.Antiferromagnetic phase transition is observed at about 38.5 K by magnetization measurement without shift induced by a small amount of doping Al.Magnetodielectric effect is found near TN in each of the three compounds.The dielectric constant decreases and the magnetocapacitance increases with the increase of substitution of nonmagnetic Al3＋ ions for the magnetic Cr^3＋ ions.The negative magnetocapacitive effect reaches ～ 13% for CuAl0.02Cr0.98S2.
The crystallographic structure and magnetic properties of La（Fell.4Alz.6）C0.02 are studied by magnetic measurernent and powder neutron diffraction with temperature and applied magnetic field. Rietveld refinement shows that La（Fe11.4Al1.6）C0.02 crystallizes into the cubic NaZn13-type with two different Fe sites： FeI （8b） and FeII （96i）, and that A1 atoms preferentially occupy the FeII site. A ferromagnetic state can he induced at a medial temperature of 39 K-139 K by an external magnetic field of 0.7 T, and a large lattice is correspondingly found at 100 K and 0.7 T. In all other conditions, La（Fe11.4Al1.6）C0.02 has no net magnetization in the paramagnetic （T 〉 TN = 182 K） or antifer- romagnetic states, and thus keeps its small lattice. Analysis of the Fe Fe bond length indicates that the ferromagnetic state prefers longer Fe-Fe distances.
