Cauê Kaufmann Ribeiro, L. Mello, V. Martelli, D. Cornejo, M. B. Silva Neto, E. Fogh, H. Rønnow, Julio Antonio Larrea Jiménez
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The role of controlled Fe antisite disorder in the narrow gap semiconductor FeGa_33 has been investigated. Polycrystalline samples were synthesized by the combination of arc-melting furnace and successive annealing processes. Deviations from occupation numbers of Fe and Ga sites expected in the pristine compound were obtained from X-ray data using Rietveld refinement analysis. Besides that, electrical transport and magnetization measurements reveal that hierarchy in Fe and Ga site disorder tunes the ground state of FeGa_33 from paramagnetic semiconductor to a magnetic metal. These findings are discussed inside the framework of Anderson localization in the vicinity of metal-semiconductor transitions and spin fluctuations.