Solution Growth and Investigation of the Single Crystals from the CePdIn System

Abstrakt

We report on the investigation of recently discovered heavy fermion compounds within the Ce-Pd-In system. Single crystals of CenPdmIn3n+2m (n = 2,3,5; m = 1,2) and Ce4Pd10In21 were synthesized from In-flux.

Specific heat measurements of the multiphase CenPdmIn3+2m system revealed a superconducting transition at T-c = 0.69 K arising from Ce2PdIn8 and another, magnetic transition at T-m = 1.67 K arising from either Ce3PdIn11 or Ce5Pd2In19. Low-temperature data of Ce4Pd10In21 display ferromagnetic long-range order below 0.8 K.

Klíčová slova

• Solution
• Growth
• Investigation
• Single
• Crystals
• CePdIn
• System