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Thermal expansion of CaFe2As2: Effect of cobalt doping and postgrowth thermal treatment
Physical Review B
  • Sergey L. Bud'ko, Iowa State University
  • Sheng Ran, Iowa State University
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-26-2013
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.88.064513
Abstract

We report thermal expansion measurements on Ca(Fe1−xCox)2As2 single crystals with different thermal treatment, with samples chosen to represent four different ground states observed in this family. For all samples, thermal expansion is anisotropic with different signs of the in-plane and c-axis thermal expansion coefficients in the high temperature, tetragonal phase. The features in thermal expansion associated with the phase transitions are of opposite signs as well, pointing to a different response of transition temperatures to the in-plane and the c-axis stress. These features, and consequently the inferred pressure derivatives, are very large, clearly and substantially exceeding those in the Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 family. For all transitions the c-axis response is dominant.

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This article is from Physical Review B 88 (2013): 064513, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.064513. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Language
en
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Citation Information
Sergey L. Bud'ko, Sheng Ran and Paul C. Canfield. "Thermal expansion of CaFe2As2: Effect of cobalt doping and postgrowth thermal treatment" Physical Review B Vol. 88 (2013) p. 064513
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul_canfield/7/