The magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity in zero and in magnetic fields up to 8 T, thermopower and thermal conductivity measurements in a wide temperature range have been performed on UCoGa 5 single crystals. On the basis of the susceptibility maximum at 650 K and the phonon part of the thermal conductivity, a mixed-valence state of uranium in this compound has been postulated. On the other hand, a normal positive behavior of magnetoresistivity rules out the possibility of spin fluctuation as a mechanism driving the susceptibility through the maximum. In turn, the thermopower results may support both kinds of many-body behaviors. The electronic structure has also been studied by combining x-ray photoemission spectroscopy results with those obtained in the band structure calculations. In the latter the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method in the atomic sphere approximation has been applied. A very good agreement between the experimental and calculated data has been achieved. A complex satellite structure of the core level spectra supports an idea of the presence of the valence instability in this compound. This idea is also concluded from the comparison of obtained experimental data with some similar rare earth and uranium ternary compounds.
Single crystals of La1−xBaxMn1−yCoyO3 (0.26 ≤ x ≤ 0.37; 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.31) perovskites
were grown by the flux melt technique using the BaO–B2O3–BaF2
ternary system as a solvent. It was found that the cobalt content in the crystals is
determined by the average oxidized state of the manganese ions and depends
nonlinearly on the molar ratio of Co/Mn in the initial mixture. All the crystals
exhibit ferromagnetic behaviour at low temperatures as well as a jump of
resistivity and a magnetoresistance peak around the Curie temperature, gradually
decreasing as the cobalt content increases. The low-temperature ferromagnetic
phase transforms from the metallic to the semiconducting state with increase in
cobalt content.
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