Tracing anomalies of structural and elastic properties of MFe4Sb12 (M=La and Yb) skutterudites

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We wish to determine with highest precision the structural properties of two skutterudite compounds (LaFe4Sb12 and YbFe4Sb12) at three different temperatures 2, 100 and 300 K by single-crystal diffraction at D9. Skutterudites (like clathrates, beta-pyrochlore and V2Al20 compounds) are representatives of crystals formed by a fully bonded and connected network of nano-meter sized polyhedra. A common feature of many of the nano-cage compounds is an anomaly in the elastic constants when cooled below 100K. It is believed that this anomaly is linked to a change in structural properties of the crystals. Specifically, it is discussed that cations occupying the polyhedra move from the centres of the polyhedra at high T to off-centre positions. We wish to examine this possibility.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-11-421
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-11-421
Provenance
Creator Jasper, Andreas Leithe; Mutka, Hannu; Koza, Michael Marek; Rosa, Oscar Ramon Fabelo; Grin, Yuri
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2016
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields