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Combined effects of pressure and Ru substitution on BaFe2As2
The ab-plane resistivity of Ba(Fe1-xRux)2As2 (x = 0.00, 0.09, 0.16, 0.21, and
0.28) was studied under nearly hydrostatic pressures, up to 7.4 GPa, in order
to explore the T-P phase diagram and to compare the combined effects of
iso-electronic Ru substitution and pressure. The parent compound BaFe2As2
exhibits a structural/magnetic phase transition near 134 K. At ambient
pressure, progressively increasing Ru concentration suppresses this phase
transition to lower temperatures at the approximate rate of ~5 K/% Ru and is
correlated with the emergence of superconductivity. By applying pressure to
this system, a similar behavior is seen for each concentration: the
structural/magnetic phase transition is further suppressed and
superconductivity induced and ultimately, for larger x Ru and P, suppressed. A
detailed comparison of the T-P phase diagrams for all Ru concentrations shows
that 3 GPa of pressure is roughly equivalent to 10% Ru substitution.
Furthermore, due to the sensitivity of Ba(Fe1-xRux)2As2 to pressure conditions,
the melting of the liquid media, 4 : 6 light mineral oil : n-pentane and 1 : 1
iso-pentane : n-pentane, used in this study could be readily seen in the
resistivity measurements. This feature was used to determine the freezing
curves for these media and infer their room temperature, hydrostatic limits:
3.5 and 6.5 GPa, respectively.Comment: 27 pages, 19 figure
Effects of mixed rare earth occupancy on the low temperature properties of (R, R',R''...)Ni2Ge2 single crystals
Temperature and applied magnetic field dependent magnetization measurements
on 34 single crystalline samples of (R, R',R''...)Ni2Ge2 compounds (R, R', R'',
etc. being primarily Gd-Lu, Y), were made. These measurements reveal that,
despite extremes in local moment anisotropy, the average de Gennes parameter is
a remarkably good predictor of the paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic ordering
temperature. In addition, the pronounced metamagnetic phase transitions seen in
the low temperature phase of TbNi2Ge2 are found to be remarkably robust to high
substitution levels of Gd and 25% substitutions of other heavy rare earths
Drastic annealing effects in transport properties of single crystals of the YbNi2B2C heavy fermion system
We report temperature dependent resistivity, specific heat, magnetic
susceptibility and thermoelectric power measurements made on the heavy fermion
system YbNi2B2C, for both as grown and annealed single crystals. Our results
demonstrate a significant variation in the temperature dependent electrical
resistivity and thermoelectric power between as grown crystals and crystals
that have undergone optimal (150 hour, 950 C) annealing, whereas the
thermodynamic properties: (c_p(T) and chi(T)) remain almost unchanged. We
interpret these results in terms of redistributions of local Kondo temperatures
associated with ligandal disorder for a small (~ 1%) fraction of the Yb sites.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
Experimental Setup for the Measurement of the Thermoelectric Power in Zero and Applied Magnetic Field
An experimental setup was developed for the measurement of the thermoelectric
power (TEP, Seebeck coefficient) in the temperature range from 2 to 350 K and
magnetic fields up to 140 kOe. The system was built to fit in a commercial
cryostat and is versatile, accurate and automated; using two heaters and two
thermometers increases the accuracy of the TEP measurement. High density data
of temperature sweeps from 2 to 350 K can be acquired in under 16 hours and
high density data of isothermal field sweeps from 0 to 140 kOe can be obtained
in under 2 hours. Calibrations for the system have been performed on a platinum
wire and BiSrCaCuO high superconductors.
The measured TEP of phosphor-bronze (voltage lead wire) turns to be very small,
where the absolute TEP value of phosphor-bronze wire is much less than 0.5
V/K below 80 K. For copper and platinum wires measured against to the
phosphor-bronze wire, the agreement between measured results and the literature
data is good. To demonstrate the applied magnetic field response of the system,
we report measurements of the TEP on single crystal samples of LaAgSb and
CeAgSb in fields up to 140 kOe.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures. accepted in Measurement Science and Technolog
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