Crystal growth and structure
determination of the novel tetragonal compound Ce2RhGa12
Chem.
Met. Alloys 4 (2011) 229-233
https://doi.org/10.30970/cma4.0189
R. NAGALAKSHMI, R. KULKARNI, S.K. DHAR, A.
THAMIZHAVEL, V. KRISHNAKUMAR, C. BESNARD, H. HAGEMANN, M. REIFFERS
Single crystals of Ce2RhGa12
have been synthesized using Ga flux and their structure was determined by
single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Ce2RhGa12 crystallizes
in the tetragonal space group P4/nbm (No. 125), and is isostructural
to Ce2PdGa12, with Z =
2 and lattice parameters a = 6.0405 Å and c = 15.706 Å. Data were
collected at the Swiss Norwegian Beam Line at the European Synchrotron
Facility, Grenoble, France. Laue diffraction was carried out to confirm the
quality of the single crystal and showed well-defined spots and tetragonal
symmetry.
View of the structure perpendicular to the a-axis.
Keywords
Cerium / Rhodium / Gallium / Intermetallic
compound / Crystal structure