Title: YAuPb - The first in a new Branch of the Half Heusler Family
Abstract: The noncentrosymmetric half-Heusler crystal structure holds a wide variety of materials with unique phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity, nontrivial topological band structures, and magnetic order. In this impressive family of materials we introduce a new superconducting member, YAuPb. The RAuPb branch of the half Heuslers is relatively unstudied leaving a new avenue for crystal growth and discovery. In this talk, we shall go over the synthesis of this novel material as well as a wide range of properties that it has displayed. Of these properties we will focus on its unique normal state transport behavior, its superconductivity transition temperature, its enhancement of magnetoresistance near 5K, and the temperature evolution of its carrier density.