Resistive behavior and intermediate valence effects in La/sub 1-x/Ce/sub x/Pd/sub 3/ and CePd/sub 3-x/Rh/sub x/

Journal Article · Thu Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1979 · J. Appl. Phys.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.327156· OSTI ID:6341016

Scoboria, P; Crow, J E; Mihalisin, T

The electrical resistivity of CePd/sub 3/, La/sub 1-x/Ce/sub x/Pd/sub 3/, CeRh/sub x/Pd/sub 3-x/ and Ce Pd/sub 3+x/ systems has been measured from helium temperature to 300 K. The resistivity of pure CePd/sub 3/ rises from 125 ..mu.. ..cap omega.. cm to 150 ..mu.. ..cap omega.. cm as one cools from 300 K to 100 K. Below 100 K the resisitivity drops dramatically to 10 ..mu.. ..cap omega.. cm at low temperatures. The same qualitative behavior, though less pronounced, is observed in other systems such as CeSn/sub 3/ which like CePd/sub 3/ are believed to be of intermediate valence. For x<0.3 the system La/sub 1-x/Ce/sub x/Pd/sub 3/ is believed to be trivalent. We observe Kondo-like behavior in this regime. For x near unity we observe that extremely small amounts of La eliminate the rapid fall in resistivity observed below 100 K for pure CePd/sub 3/. These results suggest that this fall off is due to some type of cooperative Ce ion hehavior. The CeRh/sub x/Pd/sub 3-x/ system allows one to monitor the effect on resistivity of varying the Ce valence from 3.45 in CePd/sub 3/ to 4 in CeRh/sub .64/Pd/sub 2.36/. We find that the magnitude of the resistivity rise (upon cooling from 300 K to low temperature) decreases as the Ce valence increases towards four.

• Research Organization: Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
• OSTI ID: 6341016
• Journal Information: J. Appl. Phys.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Appl. Phys.; (United States) Vol. 50:B3; ISSN JAPIA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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