Institution: | a Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Wien, Währingerstrasse 42, A-1090, Wien, Austriab W. Trzebiatowski Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, P-50-950, Wroclaw, 1410, Polandc Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide et Inorganique Moléculaire, UMR CNRS 6511, Université de Rennes I, Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042, Rennes Cedex, Franced Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Krzhyzhanovsky 3, Kiev, Ukraine |
Abstract: | Single crystals of Yb3Ge5, grown from pure gallium or indium metal flux and investigated by means of CCD four-circle diffractometry, were consistent with the Th3Pd5-type of structure, displaying full order of vacancies and germanium atoms. From magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity measurements, performed on single-crystalline specimens, Yb3Ge5 was found to be an intermediate valent systems. |