Thermoelectric Power of Ce Impurity in Cubic Crystalline Field at Low Temperatures

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (S3-1) ◽  
pp. 499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norio Kawakami ◽  
Ayao Okiji

The magnetic and other related properties of neodymium sulphate have been the subject of numerous investigations in recent years, but there is still a remarkable conflict of evidence on all the essential points. The two available determinations of the susceptibility of the powdered salt at low temperatures, those of Gorter and de Haas (1931) from 290 to 14° K and of Selwood (1933) from 343 to 83° K both fit the expression X ( T + 45) = constant over the range of temperature common to both, but the constants are not the same and the susceptibilities at room temperature differ by 11%. The fact that the two sets of results can be converted the one into the other by multiplying throughout by a constant factor suggested that the difference in the observed susceptibilities was due to some error of calibration. It could, however, also be due to the different purity of the samples examined though the explanation of the occurrence of the constant factor is then by no means obvious. From their analysis of the absorption spectrum of crystals of neodymium sulphate octahydrate Spedding and others (1937) conclude that the crystalline field around the Nd+++ ion is predominantly cubic in character since they find three energy levels at 0, 77 and 260 cm. -1 .* Calculations of the susceptibility from these levels reproduce Selwood’s value at room temperature but give no agreement with the observations-at other temperatures. On the other hand, Penney and Schlapp (1932) have shown that Gorter and de Haas’s results fit well on the curve calculated for a crystalline field of cubic symmetry and such a strength that the resultant three levels lie at 0, 238 and 834 cm. -1 , an overall spacing almost three times as great as Spedding’s.


1955 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 1721-1722 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mooser ◽  
S. B. Woods

Carbon ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 735
Author(s):  
T Tsuzuku ◽  
T Takezawa ◽  
A Ono

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (27) ◽  
pp. 1550189
Author(s):  
Q. R. Hou ◽  
B. F. Gu ◽  
Y. B. Chen

In this paper, we report a large enhancement in the thermoelectric power factor in CrSi2 film via Si:B (1 at.% B content) addition. The Si:B-enriched CrSi2 films are prepared by co-sputtering CrSi2 and heavily B-doped Si targets. Both X-ray diffraction patterns and Raman spectra confirm the formation of the crystalline phase CrSi2. Raman spectra also indicate the crystallization of the added Si:B. With the addition of Si:B, the electrical resistivity [Formula: see text] decreases especially at low temperatures while the Seebeck coefficient [Formula: see text] increases above 533 K. As a result, the thermoelectric power factor, [Formula: see text], is greatly enhanced and can reach [Formula: see text] at 583 K, which is much larger than that of the pure CrSi2 film.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiko Nishimura ◽  
Takahiro Namiki ◽  
Tsuyoshi Ikeno ◽  
Yuichi Yamamoto ◽  
Wayne D. Hutchison

<p class="AMSmaintext1"><span lang="EN-GB">Magnetic and transport properties of cold rolled SUS304 stainless steels were investigated via measurements of X-ray diffraction, magnetization, thermoelectric power (TEP), thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity from 300 K down to low temperatures.   Saturation magnetizations at 300 K were 1.6, 37.5, 72.6 and 105.6 emu/g for rolled thickness reduction ratios of 0, 33, 50 and 75%, respectively.  The thermoelectric power (TEP) values at 300 K were found to be -1.3, -0.4, 1.6 and 2.9 </span><span lang="EN-GB">m</span><span lang="EN-GB">V/K for the reduction ratios of 0, 33, 50 and 75%, respectively.  Least-squares fits of the experimental data predicted a saturation magnetization of 141 emu/g and a thermoelectric power of 4.3 </span><span lang="EN-GB">m</span><span lang="EN-GB">V/K for SUS304 in the martensite phase at 300 K.</span></p>


A method, is described for determining the magnetization entropy of a paramagnetic sub­stance by the measurement of the heat absorbed by the sample during isothermal demagnet­izations near 1°K. The method has been used with ferric methylammonium alum, which deviates appreciably from ideal behaviour because of the large Stark splittings of the ground state of the Fe 3+ ions. The results were found to agree within the experimental error with magnetization entropies computed from the energy levels of the ferric ions in a trigonal crystalline field. The computed entropies have been used to determine the absolute tem­peratures below 1°K reached by adiabatic demagnetizations of this salt.


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