High purity specimens of URu2Si2 produced by a molten metal flux technique

作者：Baumbach R E^*; Fisk Z; Ronning F; Movshovich R; Thompson J D; Bauer E D

来源：Philosophical Magazine, 2014, 94(32-33): 3663-3671.

DOI：10.1080/14786435.2014.895876

• crystal growth
• strongly correlated electrons
• superconducting materials

We report a molten metal flux technique to produce high purity specimens of URu
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Si
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. Magnetic susceptibility (
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), heat capacity (
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) and electrical resistivity (
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) measurements show that the bulk properties of these crystals are similar to those that are produced by the Czochralski technique followed by solid-state electro-transport. In particular, we find residual resistivity ratios RRR
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as large as 220.

• 出版日期2014-11-22
• 单位Los Alamos