Naoki Kikugawa

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Organization: National Institute for Materials Science , Japan
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Title: (PhD)
Co-reporter:Naoki Kikugawa, Ryan Baumbach, James S. Brooks, Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji, and Yoshiteru Maeno
Crystal Growth & Design 2015 Volume 15(Issue 11) pp:5573-5577
Publication Date(Web):October 14, 2015
DOI:10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01248
We report single-crystal growth of a perovskite ruthenate SrRuO3 by the floating-zone method using an infrared image furnace. By employing a cold trap for the growth, we prevented the evaporated RuO2 from coating the inner surface of a quartz tube and were thereby able to maintain a stable molten zone during the growth. Powder X-ray and Laue diffraction measurements confirmed the quality of the grown single crystal. The crystal was cut into a 1.4 mm × 1.4 mm × 3.0 mm rectangle that was characterized by magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and specific heat measurements. The crystal showed a ferromagnetic transition with a Curie temperature of 163.5 K, and the coercive field was as low as 0.004 T. The residual resistivity was 1.05 μΩ cm, corresponding to a residual resistivity ratio of 192. These results indicate that the grown crystal is high-quality. Electrical resistivity measurements show temperature-squared behavior, revealing that a Fermi-liquid-like electron–electron scattering is dominant. Together with a large electronic specific heat coefficient with 30 mJ K–2 mol–1, we confirm that the ferromagnetic SrRuO3 is a strongly correlated material.
Ruthenium strontium oxide
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