Intermediate valence state of Ce in the novel quaternary compound CeRu2Sn2Zn18

Structural and Magnetic Properties of a New Cubic Compound PrRu2In2Zn18

“…Recently, Isikawa et al and we found new quaternary compounds RT 2 Sn 2 Zn 18 (R: rare-earth, T = Fe, Co, and Ru) [13][14][15], which are ordered derivatives of PrT 2 Zn 20 . In PrT 2 Zn 20 , the Zn atoms occupy three distinct sites; 16c, 48f, and 96g, while in PrT 2 Sn 2 Zn 18 , Zn atoms at the 16c site are fully replaced by Sn atoms.…”

Substitution Effect for Cd Site in RT2Cd20 (R = Ce, U)

“…In CeIr 2 (Zn 1−x Cd x ) 20 , the lattice parameter increases with increasing x, resulting in the weak hybridization by the negative pressure. On the other hand, the electronic specific heat coefficient γ and T 2 term in the resistivity of CeRu 2 Zn 20 are suppressed by substituting Sn for Zn [14]. Although the Sn-substitution also corresponds to the negative pressure, the hybridization effect seems to be enhanced.…”

“…Here, X atom has three different sites namely 16c, 48f, and 96g. The 16c site is reported to be easily substituted [7] and a new compound of CeT 2 Zn 18 Sn 2 is known to possess a completely substituted 16c site [14], which is surrounded by a cage-like structure composed of Ce and 96g site X, as shown in the inset of Fig. 1(a).…”

Exploration of Multi-Component Vanadium and Titanium Pnictides Using Flux Growth and Conventional High-Temperature Methods

“…Various classes of intermetallics have been prepared by this route. In particular, numerous ternary (Ovchinnikov et al, 2017b;Baranets et al, 2019a;Childs et al, 2019;Nakamura et al, 2019;Ovchinnikov and Bobev, 2019a), quaternary (Ovchinnikov et al, 2017a; Baranets and Bobev, 2019;Baranets et al, 2019b;Jayasinghe et al, 2019;Wakiya et al, 2019), and even quinary (Zaikina et al, 2010(Zaikina et al, , 2017Ma et al, 2012) compositions were successfully synthesized in the form of single crystals. Some examples of complex intermetallics which have been recently produced from metal fluxes include AE 3 Ti 8 Bi 10 (Ovchinnikov and Bobev, 2019b), AELi 2 In 2 Ge 2 (AE = Sr, Ba, Eu) (Ovchinnikov and Bobev, 2019c), Y 7 Ru 4 InGe 12 (Bao et al, 2019), and R 5 Mg 5 Fe 4 Al x Si 18−x (R = Gd, Dy, Y) (Ma et al, 2012).…”