Study of hybridization gap and insulator-metal transition in caged compounds CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os)

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Heavy fermion compounds with a small energy gap opening in the strongly hybridised 4f-band at EF are currently under intensive investigations. Recently some of us have investigated CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os) which exhibit interesting properties. Resistivity of CeFe2Al10 exhibits a gap type feature below 20 K with a gap of ~2meV, while that of CeRu2Al10 and CeOs2Al10 exhibits semiconducting resistivity above 30K and sharp drop like metallic nature below it. One of the key questions regarding the small gap Kondo systems is whether both charge and spin spectra exhibit gap features. Therefore the aim of the present proposal is to investigate presence of spin gap in CeT2Al10 (T=Fe and Os) and its q- dependence as well as temperature evolution using inelastic neutron scattering. Further we would like to investigate the change in 4f-excitations (CF) across the insulator-metal transition in T=Ru

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079945
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079945
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Creator Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Andre Strydom
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-03-08T10:03:29Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-06-24T13:29:08Z