“…The compound crystallizes in a body-centered cubic structure with the space group Im3, and is now known to have a wide variety of compounds with the general formula AT 4 X 12 (A = alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, lanthanide, and actinide; T = Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, and Pt; X = P, As, Sb, and Ge). These compounds have received much attention since they exhibit rich physical properties that include superconductivity, metal-insulator transition, ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, hybridization gaps (Kondo insulator behavior), nonfermi-liquid behavior, quadrupolar ordering, and field-induced heavy-fermion states [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], as well as excellent thermoelectric properties [16].…”