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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 1078-1088Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b919726e
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The single phase clathrate-I Ba8Ge43 square(3) (space group Ia (3) over bard (no. 230), a = 21.307(1) angstrom) was synthesized by quenching the melt between cold steel plates. Specimens for physical property measurements were characterized by microstructure analysis and X-ray diffraction on polycrystalline samples as well as single crystals. Transport properties including thermopower, electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity and specific heat were investigated in a temperature range of 2-673 K. The electrical resistivity exhibits a metal-like temperature dependence below 300 K turning into a semiconductor-like behaviour above 300 K. The analysis of the specific heat at low temperature indicates a finite density of states at the Fermi level, thus corroborating the metallic character below 300 K. The temperature dependence of the specific heat was modelled assuming Einstein-like localized vibrations of Ba atoms inside the cages of the Ge framework. A conventional crystal-like behaviour of the thermal conductivity with a low lattice contribution (kappa(l)(300 ) = 2.7 W m(-1) K-1) has been evidenced.
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