Title
Electrical characterization of p-type Pb<inf>1-x</inf>Eu<inf>x</inf>Te
Date Issued
01 December 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
The transport properties of p-type Pb1-xEuxTe epitaxial layers were studied as a function of Eu content, temperature, and magnetic field. The low-temperature hole mobility is drastically reduced when the Eu concentration is increased from 0 to 6%, while the hole concentration remains almost constant. A metal-insulator transition was observed for x ≈ 0.04, which is probably induced by the disorder caused by the introduction of Eu. For temperatures down to 10 K, only positive magnetoresistance has been observed at low magnetic fields. An anomalous behavior of the resistivity as a function of temperature has been detected for a Eu content about 5%, which is attributed to the resonance between the localized Eu 4f level and the valence band maximum. © 2003 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
Start page
115
End page
118
Volume
16
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-3543127782
Source
Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
ISSN of the container
15571939
Sponsor(s)
This work was financially supported by Fundac¸ão de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP (Projects 99/10359-7 and 01/02737-3).
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