BaAl<sub>4</sub> Derivative Phases in the Sections {La,Ce}Ni<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>-{La,Ce}Zn<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>

Autor(en)
Fainan Failamani, Zahida Malik, Leonid P. Salamakha, Friedrich Kneidinger, Andrij Grytsiv, Herwig Michor, Ernst Bauer, Gerald Giester, Peter Franz Rogl
Abstrakt

Phase relations and crystal structures have been evaluated within the sections LaNi

2Si

2-LaZn

2Si

2 and CeNi

2Si

2-CeZn

2Si

2 at 800 °C using electron microprobe analysis and X-ray powder and single crystal structure analyses. Although the systems La-Zn-Si and Ce-Zn-Si at 800 °C do not reveal compounds such as "LaZn

2Si

2" or "CeZn

2Si

2", solid solutions {La,Ce}(Ni

1-xZn

x)

2Si

2 exist with the Ni/Zn substitution starting from {La,Ce}Ni

2Si

2 (ThCr

2Si

2-type; I4/mmm) up to x = 0.18 for Ce(Ni

1-xZn

x)

2Si

2 and x = 0.125 for La(Ni

1-xZn

x)

2Si

2. For higher Zn-contents 0.25 ≤ x ≤ 0.55 the solutions adopt the CaBe

2Ge

2-type (P4/nmm). The investigations are backed by single crystal X-ray diffraction data for Ce(Ni

0.61Zn

0.39)

2Si

2 (P4/nmm; a = 0.41022(1) nm, c = 0.98146(4) nm; R

F = 0.012) and by Rietveld refinement for La(Ni

0.56Zn

0.44)

2Si

2 (P4/nmm; a = 0.41680(6) nm, c = 0.99364(4) nm; R

F = 0.043). Interestingly, the Ce-Zn-Si system contains a ternary phase CeZn

2(Si

1-xZn

x)

2 of the ThCr

2Si

2 structure type (0.25 ≤ x ≤ 0.30 at 600 °C), which forms peritectically at T = 695 °C but does not include the composition "CeZn

2Si

2". The primitive high temperature tetragonal phase with the CaBe

2Ge

2-type has also been observed for the first time in the Ce-Ni-Si system at CeNi

2+xSi

2-x, x = 0.33 (single crystal data, P4/nmm; a = 0.40150(2) nm, c = 0.95210(2) nm; R

F = 0.0163). Physical properties (from 400 mK to 300 K) including specific heat, electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility have been elucidated for Ce(Ni

0.61Zn

0.39)

2Si

2 and La(Ni

0.56Zn

0.44)

2Si

2. Ce(Ni

0.61Zn

0.39)

2Si

2 exhibits a Kondo-type ground state. Low temperature specific heat data of La(Ni

0.56Zn

0.44)

2Si

2 suggest a spin fluctuation scenario with an enhanced value of the Sommerfeld constant.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Materialchemie, Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Technische Universität Wien, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
Journal
Dalton Transactions
Band
45
Seiten
5262-5273
Anzahl der Seiten
12
ISSN
1477-9226
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt04705f
Publikationsdatum
03-2016
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
104017 Physikalische Chemie, 104011 Materialchemie, 105113 Kristallographie
Schlagwörter
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