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INORGANICS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/inorganics11010020
Keywords
NdAlGe; magnetic Weyl semimetal; crystal growth; laser floating-zone technique; bulk physical properties
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In this study, single crystals of a magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate NdAlGe were successfully grown using a floating-zone technique with laser diodes as the heat source. The crystals showed magnetic order at 13.5 K and were characterized for their physical properties using various measurements. The study revealed the anisotropic magnetoelasticity, magneto-entropy, and charge transport induced by the magnetic order in NdAlGe.
In this study, we report the successful growth of single crystals of a magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate NdAlGe with the space group I4(1)md. The crystals were grown using a floating-zone technique, which used five laser diodes, with a total power of 2 kW, as the heat source. To ensure that the molten zone was stably formed during the growth, we employed a bell-shaped distribution profile of the vertical irradiation intensity. After the nominal powder, crushed from an arc-melted ingot, was shaped under hydrostatic pressure, we sintered the feed and seed rods in an Ar atmosphere under ultra-low oxygen partial pressure (<10(-26) atm) generated by an oxygen pump made of yttria-stabilized zirconia heated at 873 K. Single crystals of NdAlGe were successfully grown to a length of 50 mm. The grown crystals showed magnetic order in bulk at 13.5 K. The fundamental physical properties were characterized by magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, specific heat, thermal expansion, and electrical resistivity measurements. This study demonstrates that the magnetic order induces anisotropic magnetoelasticity, magneto-entropy, and charge transport in NdAlGe.
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