Crystal structure and anisotropic magnetic properties of new ferromagnetic Kondo lattice compound Ce(Cu,Al,Si)₂

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• 作者：A. Maurya^a ; ; A. Thamizhavel^a ; S.K. Dhar^a ; A. Provino^b ; ^c ; M. Pani^b ; ^c ; G.A. Costa^b ; ^c
• 关键词：Ce(Cu ; Al ; Si)2 ; Single crystal ; Ferromagnetic Kondo lattice ; Heavy fermion ; Crystal electric field
• 刊名：Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：426
• 期：Complete
• 页码：144-149
• 全文大小：681 K
• 卷排序：426

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Single crystals of the new compound CeCu0.18Al0.24Si1.58 have been grown by high-temperature solution growth method using a eutectic Al-Si mixture as flux. This compound is derived from the binary CeSi2 (tetragonal α-ThSi2-type, Pearson symbol tI12, space group I41/amd) obtained by partial substitution of Si by Cu and Al atoms but showing full occupation of the Si crystal site (8e). While CeSi2 is a well-known valence-fluctuating paramagnetic compound, the CeCu0.18Al0.24Si1.58 phase orders ferromagnetically at TC=9.3 K. At low temperatures the easy-axis of magnetization is along the a-axis, which re-orients itself along the c-axis above 30 K. The presence of hysteresis in the magnetization curve, negative temperature coefficient of resistivity at high temperatures, reduced jump in the heat capacity and a relatively lower entropy released up to the ordering temperature, and enhanced Sommerfeld coefficient (≈100 mJ/mol K2) show that CeCu0.18Al0.24Si1.58 is a Kondo lattice ferromagnetic, moderate heavy fermion compound. Analysis of the high temperature heat capacity data in the paramagnetic region lets us infer that the crystal electric field split doublet levels are located at 178 and 357 K, respectively, and Kondo temperature (8.4 K) is of the order of TC in CeCu0.18Al0.24Si1.58.