342 research outputs found
Ultra-high molecular weight silphenylene-siloxane polymers
Silphenylene-siloxane copolymers with molecular weights above one million were prepared using a two stage polymerization technique. The technique was successfully scaled up to produce 50 grams of this high polymer in a single run. The reactive monomer approach was also investigated using the following aminosilanes: bis(dimethylamino)dimethylsilane, N,N-bis(pyrrolidinyl)dimethylsilane and N,N-bis(gamma-butyrolactam)dimethylsilane). Thermal analyses were performed in both air and nitrogen. The experimental polymers decomposed at 540 to 562 C, as opposed to 408 to 426 C for commercial silicones. Differential scanning calorimetry showed a glass transition (Tg) at -50 to -55 C for the silphenylene-siloxane copolymer while the commercial silicones had Tg's at -96 to -112 C
Field dependent effective masses in YbAl
We show for the intermediate valence compound YbAl that the high field
(40 60T) effective masses measured by the de Haas-van
Alphen experiment for field along the direction are smaller by
approximately a factor of two than the low field masses. The field
40T for this reduction is much smaller than the Kondo field ( 670K) but is comparable to the field
where 40K is the temperature for the onset
of Fermi liquid coherence. This suggests that the field scale does not
arise from 4 polarization but is connected with the removal of the anomalies
that are known to occur in the Fermi liquid state of this compound.Comment: 7 pages plus 3 figures Submitted to PRL 9/12/0
Magnetism and unconventional superconductivity in CeMIn heavy-fermion crystals
We review magnetic, superconducting and non-Fermi-liquid properties of the
structurally layered heavy-fermion compounds CeMIn (M=Co, Rh,
Ir). These properties suggest d-wave superconductivity and proximity to an
antiferromagetic quantum-critical point.Comment: submitted 23rd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics
(LT-23), Aug. 200
High pressure investigation of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet U_3Ni_5Al_19
Measurements of magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and electrical
resistivity at applied pressures up to 55 kbar have been carried out on single
crystals of the heavy-fermion antiferromagnet U_3Ni_5Al_19, which crystallizes
in the Gd_3Ni_5Al_19 orthorhombic structure with two inequivalent U sites. At
ambient pressure, a logarithmic T-dependence of the specific heat and T-linear
electrical resistivity below 5 K indicates non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior in
the presence of bulk antiferromagnetic order at T_N=23 K. Electrical
resistivity measurements reveal a crossover from non-Fermi liquid to Fermi
liquid behavior at intermediate pressures between 46 kbar and 51 kbar, followed
by a return to NFL T^{3/2} behavior at higher pressures. These results provide
evidence for an ambient pressure quantum critical point and an additional
antiferromagnetic instability at P_c=60 kbar.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Heat Capacity in Magnetic and Electric Fields Near the Ferroelectric Transition in Tri-Glycine Sulfate
Specific-heat measurements are reported near the Curie temperature (~=
320 K) on tri-glycine sulfate. Measurements were made on crystals whose
surfaces were either non-grounded or short-circuited, and were carried out in
magnetic fields up to 9 T and electric fields up to 220 V/cm. In non-grounded
crystals we find that the shape of the specific-heat anomaly near is
thermally broadened. However, the anomaly changes to the characteristic sharp
-shape expected for a continuous transition with the application of
either a magnetic field or an electric field. In crystals whose surfaces were
short-circuited with gold, the characteristic -shape appeared in the
absence of an external field. This effect enabled a determination of the
critical exponents above and below , and may be understood on the basis
that the surface charge originating from the pyroelectric coefficient, ,
behaves as if shorted by external magnetic or electric fields.Comment: 4 Pages, 4 Figures. To Appear in Applied Physics Letters_ January
200
A Novel Dielectric Anomaly in Cuprates and Nickelates: Signature of an Electronic Glassy State
The low-frequency dielectric response of hole-doped insulators
La_{2}Cu_{1-x}Li_{x}O_{4} and La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4} shows a large dielectric
constant \epsilon ^{'} at high temperature and a step-like drop by a factor of
100 at a material-dependent low temperature T_{f}. T_{f} increases with
frequency and the dielectric response shows universal scaling in a Cole-Cole
plot, suggesting that a charge glass state is realized both in the cuprates and
in the nickelates.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
A New Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeIrIn5: Relative of the Cuprates?
CeIrIn5 is a member of a new family of heavy-fermion compounds and has a
Sommerfeld specific heat coefficient of 720 mJ/mol-K2. It exhibits a bulk,
thermodynamic transition to a superconducting state at Tc=0.40 K, below which
the specific heat decreases as T2 to a small residual T-linear value.
Surprisingly, the electrical resistivity drops below instrumental resolution at
a much higher temperature T0=1.2 K. These behaviors are highly reproducible and
field-dependent studies indicate that T0 and Tc arise from the same underlying
electronic structure. The layered crystal structure of CeIrIn5 suggests a
possible analogy to the cuprates in which spin/charge pair correlations develop
well above Tc
Kondo Insulator: p-wave Bose Condensate of Excitons
In the Anderson lattice model for a mixed-valent system, the
hybridization can possess a -wave symmetry. The strongly-correlated
insulating phase in the mean-field approximation is shown to be a -wave Bose
condensate of excitons with a spontaneous lattice deformation. We study the
equilibrium and linear response properties across the insulator-metal
transition. Our theory supports the empirical correlation between the lattice
deformation and the magnetic susceptibility and predicts measurable ultrasonic
and high-frequency phonon behavior in mixed-valent semiconductors.Comment: 5 pages, 3 encapsulated PostScript figure
Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in CeRh1-xIrxIn5
We report a thermodynamic and transport study of the phase diagram of
CeRh1-xIrxIn5. Superconductivity is observed over a broad range of doping, 0.3
< x < 1, including a substantial range of concentration (0.3 < x <0.6) over
which it coexists with magnetic order (which is observed for 0 < x < 0.6). The
anomalous transition to zero resistance that is observed in CeIrIn5 is robust
against Rh substitution. In fact, the observed bulk Tc in CeRh0.5Ir0.5In5 is
more than double that of CeIrIn5, whereas the zero-resistance transition
temperature is relatively unchanged for 0.5 < x < 1
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