KFeCuTe2: a new compound to study the removal of interstitial Fe in layered tellurides
Fan Sun1, Zhongnan Guo1, Ning Liu2
1Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China. wxyuanwz@163.com.
Abstract:
A single crystal of a new layered telluride KFeCuTe2 has been successfully synthesized by the self-flux method, which is formed by intercalating K in the parent telluride Fe1+xCuTe2. This new compound crystallizes in the space group I4/mmm with the interstitial Fe in pristine Fe1+xCuTe2 completely removed after K intercalation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) shows that after intercalation, the valence of Fe switched from a mixture of +2 and +3 to the single trivalent one. The KFeCuTe2 is a Mott semiconductor (Eg = 1.06 eV) with a larger resistivity than that of Fe1+xCuTe2 due to the absence of electron doping from interstitial Fe atoms. Most importantly, the magnetic susceptibility shows the antiferromagnetic transition in KFeCuTe2 at 60 K, instead of the spin-glass behavior in Fe1+xCuTe2, indicating the crucial role of interstitial Fe in breaking the long-range magnetic ordering. Our work provides a new compound to study the effect of interstitial Fe on the crystal and magnetic structure in layered tellurides.
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