We report resistivity, specific heat and optical spectroscopy measurements on single crystal samples of La 3 Co 4 Sn 13 and Ce 3 Co 4 Sn 13 . We observed clear temperature-induced spectral weight suppression below 4000 cm −1 for both compounds in conductivity spectra σ 1 (ω), indicating the progressive formation of gap-like features with decreasing temperature. The suppressed spectral weight transfers mostly to the higher energy region. The observation reflects the presence of correlation effect in the compounds. We attribute the correlation effect to the Co 3d electrons.
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