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Improved thermal relaxation method for the simultaneous measurement of the specific heat and thermal conductivity

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A novel method for the simultaneous, high-resolution measurement of the specific heat c and the thermal conductivity κ is presented. A new experimental setup has been developed with special emphasis on the elimination of systematic errors arising from radiative heat loss. A self-consistent data evaluation method is implemented which takes the effects of the sample geometry on c and κ properly into account. The measurements were performed over a broad temperature regime from 3 K up to room temperature on three compounds from the family of strongly correlated electron systems. The differences in their thermal properties and their highly sample-dependent sizes and shapes demonstrate the extended scope of the proposed method.

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  1. Condensed Matter Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    L. Demkó, I. Kézsmárki, M. Csontos, S. Bordács & G. Mihály

  2. Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland

    M. Csontos

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Demkó, L., Kézsmárki, I., Csontos, M. et al. Improved thermal relaxation method for the simultaneous measurement of the specific heat and thermal conductivity. Eur. Phys. J. B 74, 27–33 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00055-0

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