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Crystal structure and electrical resistivity of NdCo2Al8

  • 1. College of Physics Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Materials and New Processing Technology, Ministry of Education, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004 (China)

Description

The new ternary compound NdCo2Al8 has been prepared and studied by means of X-ray powder diffraction technique. The structural refinement of the compound was performed by using Rietveld method. The ternary compound NdCo2Al8 crystallizes in the orthorhombic CaCo2Al8-type structure with space group Pbam (No. 55). Electrical resistivity of the compound NdCo2Al8 was also measured between 5 and 300 K. Temperature variation of the electrical resistivity suggests its metallic character of the compound with an anomaly detected at 8.0 K

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2007.11.142

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2007.11.142;
PII
S0925-8388(07)02246-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
467
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 6-9
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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