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Chapter 9<br />

Conclusion<br />

We have studied the electronic states in <strong>Kondo</strong> insulators YbB12 and FeSi by highresolution<br />

photoemission spectroscopy (PES). The principal results are schematically<br />

illustrated in Fig. 9.1 for YbB12 and in Fig. 9.2 for FeSi. We have found that the observed<br />

position <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Kondo</strong> peak in YbB12 agrees with the <strong>Kondo</strong> temperature (TK)<br />

estimated from the magnetic susceptibility peak at T ∼ Tmax (Fig. 9.1 (a)), indicating<br />

that single-site <strong>Kondo</strong> effect indeed governs the magnetic properties in this temperature<br />

range. By introducing a model self-energy to compare the photoemission spectra<br />

with first-principle band-structure calculation, the mass renormalization is shown to<br />

be strongly energy dependent near EF . The density <strong>of</strong> states (DOS) <strong>of</strong> the B 2sp -<br />

Yb 5d- derived conduction band is depressed near EF . Lu substitution recovers the<br />

reduced conduction-band DOS, shifts the Yb 4f-derived <strong>Kondo</strong> peak towards higher<br />

binding energy (Fig. 9.1 (a)) and decreases the Yb valence. These results are consistently<br />

analyzed using the Anderson impurity model. The temperature dependence <strong>of</strong><br />

the B sp-derived conduction band <strong>of</strong> YbB12 and Yb1−xLuxB12 has been measured with<br />

higher energy resolution. We have observed the temperature-dependent DOS which is<br />

consistent with its unusual magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity. A sharp<br />

dip <strong>of</strong> ∼ 10 meV width appears at low temperatures (

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