Elsevier, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (272-276), p. 468-469
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2003.11.190
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The introduction of Cu in the CeNi compound maintains the same crystallographic CrB-type structure up to CeNi0.85Cu0.15. The crystallographic structure of several compositions in the neighbourhood of this limit has been determined from single crystals in a 4-circle diffractometer. The thermal expansion coefficients of CeNi0.9Cu0.1 behave similar to those of CeNi. The Cu substitution disturbs the intermediate valence behaviour of CeNi, inducing non-zero magnetic moments at low temperatures and suggesting a cluster-glass behaviour.