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Crystal growth and physical properties of the ternary Uranium compound U3M3Bi4

Tomasz Klimczuk 1,2Han-oh Lee 1Filip Ronning 1Eric Bauer 1Michael F. Hundley 1Joe D. Thompson 1

1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM 87545, United States
2. Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, GdaƄsk 80-952, Poland

Abstract

Kondo insulator is one of the systems which got particular interest, but
not yet understood well. Metal-insulator (MI) transition by doping in
these systems is one of the examples poorly understood. U3M3Bi4 forms in
the same crystal structure with Ce3Pt3Bi4, which is well known Kondo
insulator. We have succeeded in synthesizing new single crystals of
U3M3Bi4, where M = Rh, Ni, with metallic Kondo lattice and
semiconducting behaviors, respectively. It provides the opportunity to
investigate metal-insulator transition in Kondo insulating system without
affecting the crystal structure.

 

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Presentation: Invited oral at Joint Fith International Conference on Solid State Crystals & Eighth Polish Conference on Crystal Growth, by Tomasz Klimczuk
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Submitted: 2007-01-22 06:56
Revised:   2009-06-07 00:44