Magnetic and structural transition in tetrahedrite Cu12Sb4S13

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Tetrahedrites are minerals which consist largely of earth-abundant and environmentally-friendly elements (copper and sulfur). This family of materials is attracting much interest due to their potential for thermoelectric energy recovery. Tetrahedrites are one of the best p-type thermoelectric materials known to date, due to their extremely low thermal conductivity. It has been recently discovered that the parent tetrahedrite, Cu12Sb4S13, exhibits a metal-semiconductor transition at 85 K, in which the electrical resistivity increases by two orders of magnitude. This transition is accompanied by a marked anomaly in the magnetic susceptibility and a structural transition which leads to a reduction in symmetry from cubic to tetragonal. We seek to collect diffraction data as a function of temperature to investigate magnetic ordering and determine the structure of this material below 85 K.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82359955
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82359955
Provenance
Creator Dr Paz Vaqueiro-Rodriguez; Dr Fabio Orlandi; Professor Anthony Powell; Mr Panagiotis Mangelis; Mr Sebastian Long
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-10T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-11T07:00:00Z