Liu Hong-Xiong, Li Jun, Miao Shan-Shan, Feng Hai L, Li Jian-Qi, Shi You-Guo
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China.
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China.
Inorg Chem. 2022 Oct 24;61(42):16632-16638. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02047. Epub 2022 Oct 14.
Single crystals and polycrystalline samples of HoPdSn have been synthesized using flux and arc-melting methods, respectively. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies indicate that HoPdSn crystallizes in a tetragonal structure (4/) at room temperature and transforms into a monoclinic structure (2/) below ∼194 K. This structural transition is further supported by a transmission electron microscopy study and an anomaly at ∼194 K in the specific heat data. Temperature-dependent resistivity data also show a kink around the structural transition temperature. HoPdSn is antiferromagnetically ordered below 7 K. HoPdSn shows magnetic anisotropy, and the isothermal magnetization curve (⊥) at 2 K exhibits a field-induced magnetic phase transition around 22.8 kOe.
