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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 125, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5099632
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0008885]
This article deals with the new antimonides represented with the general formula Ca14-xRExCdSb11 (RE=La-Nd, Sm, Gd-Yb, x approximate to 0.85 +/- 0.15). The 12 studied compounds constitute a nearly complete series of rare-earth metal substituted variants of the ternary Ca14CdSb11 phase. All have been synthesized from the respective elements, employing high-temperature reactions under molten flux conditions. The structures have been fully characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. All materials crystallize in the tetragonal Ca14AlSb11 structure type (space group I4(1)/acd, No. 142, Z=8). Rare-earth element atoms randomly substitute Ca atoms on the four available crystallographic sites, with a noted preference for the Ca2 site in case of the light (La-Nd) rare-earth elements and the Ca1 site in case of the heavier (Sm, Gd-Yb) ones. The electronic structure calculations and resistivity measurements indicate title compounds as degenerated semiconductors. Magnetization measurements at varied temperature show Curie-Weiss paramagnetic behavior consistent with local-moment magnetism due to the 3+ ground state for the rare-earth metal ions. In the case of the Yb-containing sample, a mixed-valence Yb2+/3+ state is apparent. The measured charge transport properties suggest small bandgap degenerate semiconductor-like behavior and suitability for thermoelectrics.
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