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We report the iron (Fe) isotope effect on the transition temperature (Tc) in the oxygen-deficient SmFeAsO_{1-y}, a 50 K-class Fe-based superconductor. For the optimally-doped samples with Tc = 54 K, change of the Fe average atomic mass…
Electrical, magnetic and galvanomagnetic properties of half-metallic Heusler alloys of Co$_2$YZ (Y = Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, and Z = Al, Si, Ga, Ge, In, Sn, Sb) were studied in the temperature range 4.2--900 K and in magnetic fields of up to…
The temperature and pressure dependence of the partial density of phonon states of iron atoms in superconducting Fe1.01Se was studied by 57Fe nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS). The high energy resolution allows for a detailed observation…
The specific heat $C(T)$ of BaFe$_2$As$_2$ single crystal, electron-doped Ba$_{0.7}$La$_{0.3}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ and hole-doped Ba$_{0.5}$K$_{0.5}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ polycrystals were measured. For undoped BaFe$_2$As$_2$ single crystal, a very sharp…
Single crystals of intermetallic Re$_3$Ge$_7$ were grown and characterized by measuring magnetization, electrical resistivity, Hall coefficient, and specific heat. Magnetization measurements show the material is weakly diamagnetic. A phase…
We present THz range optical conductivity data of a thin film of the near quantum critical heavy fermion compound CeFe$_2$Ge$_2$. Our complex conductivity measurements find a deviation from conventional Drude-like transport in a temperature…
The study was aimed at determination of the position of the Fe-rich border of the metastable miscibility gap (MMG) and of the solubility limit of Cr in iron at 858 K. Towards this end a Fe73.7Cr26.3 alloy was isothermally annealed at 858 K…
Low temperature specific heat (SH) was measured on the FeAs-based superconducting single crystals Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ and high pressure synthesized polycrystalline samples SmFeAsO$_{0.9}$F$_{0.1}$. It is found that the sharp SH…
The detailed temperature dependence of the infrared-active mode in Fe$_{1.03}$Te ($T_N\simeq 68$ K) and Fe$_{1.13}$Te ($T_N\simeq 56$ K) has been examined, and the position, width, strength, and asymmetry parameter determined using an…
Fe-Cr binary alloys serve as simplified model systems to study irradiation damage relevant to fusion structural materials. Here, Fe-3%Cr and Fe-5%Cr samples were irradiated with 4 MeV Fe ions under a dose rate of 4x10^5 dpa/s across a…
We report interesting anomalies in the temperature dependent Raman spectra of FeSe$_{0.82}$ measured from 3K to 300K in the spectral range from 60 to 1800 cm$^{-1}$ and determine their origin using complementary first-principles density…
The elastic and magnetic properties, thermodynamical stability, deviation from stoichiometry and order/disorder transformations of phases that are relevant to Be alloys were investigated using density functional theory simulations coupled…
Concentration of Cr in the Fe-rich alpha-phase, x, resulted from a phase decomposition caused by an isothermal annealing at T = 415 and 450 C of a non-irradiated (NR) Fe-Cr14 EFDA sample and that of a He-ions irradiated (IR) one annealed at…
57Fe-Mossbauer spectra of superconducting beta-FeSe, the Li/NH3 intercalate product and a subsequent sample of this intercalate treated with moist He gas have been measured in temperature range 4.7 - 290 K. A correlation is established…
A theoretical approach using ab initio calculations has been applied to study the interaction of an ultra-short laser pulse with the metal alloy Fe$_{0.72}$Cr$_{0.18}$Ni$_{0.1}$ (AISI 304). The electronic structure is simulated by taking…
The paper reports new results of the 57Fe M\"ossbauer measurements on Fe3PO4O3 powder sample recorded at various temperatures including the point of magnetic phase transition TN ~ 163K. The spectra measured above TN consist of quadrupole…
A redistribution of Cr atoms related to a phase decomposition (PD) caused by an isothermal annealing at 415 C in a 15.15 at%Cr Fe-Cr alloy was studied in an ex-situ way by the conversion electrons M\"ossbauer spectroscopy. Analysis of the…
The low-temperature normal-state specific heat and resistivity curves of various nonmagnetic intermetallic compounds manifest an anomalous thermal evolution. Such an anomaly is exhibited as a break in the slope of the linearized C/T versus…
Measurements of the specific heat of Mg ^{11}B_2 (MgB2), from 1 to 50 K, in magnetic fields to 9 T, give the Debye temperature, $\Theta$ = 1050 K, the coefficient of the normal-state electron contribution, $\gamma_n$ = 2.6 mJ mol^{-1}…
In this work, thermoelectric properties of Al$_{1.2}$Fe$_2$B$_2$ compound were investigated over a temperature range from 300\,K to 773\,K. Al$_{1.2}$Fe$_2$B$_2$ compound was produced by vacuum arc melting of Al, Fe, and B followed by…