Abstract
Neutron powder diffraction has been used to investigate the structural and magnetic behavior of the isoelectronically doped Fe pnictide material PrFe${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}$Ru${}_{x}$AsO. Substitution of Ru for Fe suppresses the structural and magnetic phase transitions that occur in the undoped compound PrFeAsO. Contrary to the behavior usually observed in 1111 pnictide materials, the suppression of both the structural and magnetic transitions does not result in the emergence of superconductivity or any other new ground state. Interestingly, PrFeAsO itself shows an unusual negative thermal expansion (NTE) along the $c$ axis, from 60 K down to at least 4 K; this does not occur in superconducting samples such as those formed by doping with fluorine on the oxygen site. We find that NTE is present for all concentrations of PrFe${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}$Ru${}_{x}$AsO with $x$ ranging from 0.05 to 0.75. These results suggest that the absence of superconductivity in these materials could be related to the presence of NTE.
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