Electrical and Magnetic Properties of FeGa3 with Antisite Disorder
We investigated the electronic and magnetic ground states of the cage compound FeGa3 under the presence of Fe antisite disorder (namely as Fe0.258Ga0.742) by x-ray diffraction (XRD), Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS), magnetization and electrical resistivity. Our results show that approximately 4.5 (5)% Fe antisite occupying one of the two non-equivalent Ga sites changes significantly the electronic and magnetic ground states of the pristine compound. We uncover that Fe0.258Ga0.742 undergoes two magnetic transitions, T1 ≈ 60 K and T2 ≈ 15 K, the latter associated with the suppression of semiconducting behavior. We focus our discussion on the role that in-gap impurity states and spin disorder play across semiconducting-metal and paramagnetic-magnetic transitions.
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Funder | Funding(s) | Grant Number | Grant URL |
M.C.A. Fantini | |||
Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||
European Research Council | 810451 | ||
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