Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ system
Abstract
Polycrystalline samples of LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ (x=0,0.25,0.50,0.75,1) were synthesized and their properties investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements at room temperature and by heat capacity Cp, magnetic susceptibility χ, and electrical resistivity ρ measurements versus temperature T from 1.8 to 350 K. Rietveld refinements of powder XRD patterns confirm that these compounds crystallize in the body-centered-tetragonal ThCr₂Si₂-type structure (space group I4/mmm) with composition-dependent lattice parameters that slightly deviate from Vegard's law. The ρ(T) measurements showed a positive temperature coefficient for all samples from 1.8 to 300 K, indicating that all compositions in this system are metallic. The low-T Cp measurements yield a rather large Sommerfeld electronic specific heat coefficient γ=12.4(2) mJ/mol K² for x=0, reflecting a large density of states at the Fermi energy that is comparable with the largest values found for the AFe₂As₂ class of materials with the same crystal structure. The γ decreases approximately linearly with x to 7.4(1) mJ/mol K² for x=1. The χ measurements show nearly temperature-independent paramagnetic behavior across the entire range of compositions except for LaNi₂Ge₂, where a broad peak is observed at ≈300 K from χ(T) measurements up to 1000 K that may arise from short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in a quasi-two-dimensional magnetic system. High-accuracymore »
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Goetsch, R. J., Anand, V. K., Pandey, Abhishek, and Johnston, D. C. Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ system. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054517.
Goetsch, R. J., Anand, V. K., Pandey, Abhishek, & Johnston, D. C. Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054517
Goetsch, R. J., Anand, V. K., Pandey, Abhishek, and Johnston, D. C. Wed .
"Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054517.
@article{osti_1099267,
title = {Structural, thermal, magnetic, and electronic transport properties of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ system},
author = {Goetsch, R. J. and Anand, V. K. and Pandey, Abhishek and Johnston, D. C.},
abstractNote = {Polycrystalline samples of LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ (x=0,0.25,0.50,0.75,1) were synthesized and their properties investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements at room temperature and by heat capacity Cp, magnetic susceptibility χ, and electrical resistivity ρ measurements versus temperature T from 1.8 to 350 K. Rietveld refinements of powder XRD patterns confirm that these compounds crystallize in the body-centered-tetragonal ThCr₂Si₂-type structure (space group I4/mmm) with composition-dependent lattice parameters that slightly deviate from Vegard's law. The ρ(T) measurements showed a positive temperature coefficient for all samples from 1.8 to 300 K, indicating that all compositions in this system are metallic. The low-T Cp measurements yield a rather large Sommerfeld electronic specific heat coefficient γ=12.4(2) mJ/mol K² for x=0, reflecting a large density of states at the Fermi energy that is comparable with the largest values found for the AFe₂As₂ class of materials with the same crystal structure. The γ decreases approximately linearly with x to 7.4(1) mJ/mol K² for x=1. The χ measurements show nearly temperature-independent paramagnetic behavior across the entire range of compositions except for LaNi₂Ge₂, where a broad peak is observed at ≈300 K from χ(T) measurements up to 1000 K that may arise from short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in a quasi-two-dimensional magnetic system. High-accuracy Padé approximants representing the Debye lattice heat capacity and Bloch-Grüneisen electron-phonon resistivity functions versus T are presented and are used to analyze our experimental Cp(T) and ρ(T) data, respectively, for 1.8K≤T≤300 K. The T dependences of ρ for all samples are well-described over this T range by the Bloch-Grüneisen model, although the observed ρ(300 K) values are larger than calculated from this model. A significant T dependence of the Debye temperature determined from the Cp(T) data was observed for each composition. No clear evidence for bulk superconductivity or any other long-range phase transition was found for any of the LaNi₂(Ge1-xPx)₂ compositions studied.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054517},
journal = {Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
number = 5,
volume = 85,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2012},
month = {Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2012}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054517
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