CaFe4As3: a metallic iron arsenide with anisotropic magnetic and charge-transport properties

Iliya Todorov; Duck Young Chung; Christos D Malliakas; Quing'an Li; Thomas Bakas; Alexios Douvalis; Giancarlo Trimarchi; Kenneth Gray; John F Mitchell; Arthur J Freeman; Mercouri G Kanatzidis

doi:10.1021/ja900534h

CaFe4As3: a metallic iron arsenide with anisotropic magnetic and charge-transport properties

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Apr 22;131(15):5405-7. doi: 10.1021/ja900534h.

Authors

Iliya Todorov¹, Duck Young Chung, Christos D Malliakas, Quing'an Li, Thomas Bakas, Alexios Douvalis, Giancarlo Trimarchi, Kenneth Gray, John F Mitchell, Arthur J Freeman, Mercouri G Kanatzidis

Affiliation

¹ Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.

PMID: 19334680
DOI: 10.1021/ja900534h

Abstract

The iron arsenide CaFe(4)As(3) features a three-dimensional network derived from intergrown Fe(2)As(2) layers and Ca ions in channels. Complex magnetic interactions between Fe atoms give rise to unexpected transitions and novel direction-dependent magnetic behavior.