We report the growth and characterization of single crystals of the disorted-kagome lattice compound CrPdAs. Spin-glass behaviour with TSG∼60K is observed in all crystals tested. Some growths show in addition a magnetic impurity phase with Tc around 200 K, but annealing produces single-phase crystals without the ferromagnetic impurity phase. Single-phase crystals nevertheless have 29±5% anti-site disorder of the Cr and Pd sites, similar to a previous generation of flux-grown polycrystalline samples. We observe a large linear-coefficient of the heat capacity at low temperature, γ=23±3 mJ/mole\,K2, which is typical of kagome metals. The calculated band structure shows several Dirac band-crossings very near EF whose degeneracy is lifted when spin-orbit interaction is included. Our most curious finding is a `non-metallic' in-plane resistivity, extending over the entire measured temperature range from 300 K down to 2 K. This resistivity is quasi-linear below about 130 K, and shows no sign of saturation down to the lowest temperature measured.
@article{arxiv.2604.11630,
title = {Quasi-linear `non-metallic' resistivity in the distorted-kagome metal CrPdAs},
author = {Benny Lau and Wenlong Wu and Bo Yuan and Julian Nickel and Stephen Julian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11630},
year = {2026}
}