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Calorimetric and resistive measurements of amorphous ''splat cooled'' La/sub 1-x/Ga/sub x/ foils

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev., B: Solid State; (United States)
The heat capacities, transition temperatures, electrical resistivities, and upper critical fields have been measured for a series of La/sub 1-x/Ga/sub x/ alloys with x = 0.16--x = 0.28. Values of the Debye temperature, density of states, and electron-phonon coupling constant have been determined from these measurements. Superconductivity in this amorphous system is of the intermediate-coupling nature with lambda approx. = 0.8 and the ratio of the nonphonon-renormalized density of states to that of the free-electron model is N/sub ..gamma../(0)/(1 + lambda) N/sub FE/ approx. = 2.2. Specific-heat data as a function of concentration suggest a change in short-range order for x between 0.22 and 0.26.
Research Organization:
Texas AM University, College Station, Texas 77843
OSTI ID:
6604146
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev., B: Solid State; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., B: Solid State; (United States) Vol. 18:7; ISSN PLRBA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English