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Strongly Correlated Electron Phenomena in the Filled Skutterudites

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Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Materials

In the field of modern condensed matter physics, a major effort has been devoted to the study of correlated electron phenomena in solids, particularly those associated with d- and f-electrons of transition metal, rare earth, or actinide ions. One class of materials that has contributed to this enterprise has been the filled skutterudites, which have provided a rich reservoir of new materials including PrOs4Sb12: the first Pr-based heavy fermion superconductor. In this class of compounds, the delicate interplay between several types of physical phenomena can be tuned by means of various “knobs”, such as pressure and chemical substitution, to reveal the underlying mechanisms of the correlated electron behavior.

In this paper, we review recent experiments on filled skutterudite compounds based on Ce and Pr “filler ions”, with particular attention to the arsenides and antimonides.

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Maple, M.B. et al. (2009). Strongly Correlated Electron Phenomena in the Filled Skutterudites. In: Zlatić, V., Hewson, A.C. (eds) Properties and Applications of Thermoelectric Materials. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2892-1_1

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