Thermoelectric power of CuCrxVySe4 p-type spinel semiconductors |
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| Authors: | E. Malicka H. Duda T. Groń A. Gągor S. Mazur J. Krok-Kowalski |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Silesia, Institute of Chemistry, ul. Szkolna 9, 40-006 Katowice, Poland;2. University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland;3. Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Okólna 2, 50-950 Wroc?aw, Poland;4. The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Structural, electrical and magnetic measurements of polycrystalline CuCrxVySe4 spinels with x=1.79, 1.64 and 1.49 and y=0.08, 0.22 and 0.45, respectively, are presented. The compounds under study crystallize in regular system of a normal spinel type MgAl2O4 structure with the space group symmetry Fd3m. The chromium spins are coupled ferromagnetically and show both strong long- and short-range magnetic interactions evidenced by the large values of the Curie (TC) and Curie–Weiss (θCW) temperatures, decreasing from TC=407 K and θCW=415 K for y=0.08, via TC=349 K and θCW=367 K for y=0.22 to TC=283 K and θCW=293 K for y=0.45, respectively. In all the studied spinels a change of the electrical conductivity character from the semiconductive into the metallic one above 230 K was observed. A detailed thermoelectric power analysis showed a domination of diffusion thermopower component, maximum of phonon drag component at 230 K, a decrease of impurity component with increasing V content, as well as the weak magnon excitations at 40 K. |
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