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We report on a57Fe Mössbauer study of tellurium substituted FeSb2, FeSb2−x Tc x (x=0.2, 0.4, 0.6), at temperatures between 4.2 K and 300 K. For all three alloys, the Mössbauer spectra at 4.2 K are characteristic of a magnetically ordered state. The hyperfine field at Fe site increases with increasing tellurium concentration. The magnetic character may be attributed to the existence of a very narrow band gap leading to fairly strong Coulomb and exchange interactions between holes in the valence band and electrons in the conduction band.
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Sharma, Y.K., Wagner, F.E. Evidence of magnetic ordering in tellurium substituted FeSb2 . Hyperfine Interact 59, 341–344 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02401243
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02401243