Electrical transport properties in Co nanocluster-assembled granular film.

Autor: Qin-Fu Zhang, Lai-Sen Wang, Xiong-Zhi Wang, Hong-Fei Zheng, Xiang Liu, Jia Xie, Yu-Long Qiu, Yuanzhi Chen, Dong-Liang Peng
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Physics; 2017, Vol. 121 Issue 10, p1-8, 8p, 1 Diagram, 7 Graphs
Abstrakt: A Co nanocluster-assembled granular film with three-dimensional cross-connection paralleled conductive paths was fabricated by using the plasma-gas-condensation method in a vacuum environment. The temperature-dependent longitudinal resistivity and anomalous Hall effect of this new type granular film were systematically studied. The longitudinal resistivity of the Co nanoclusterassembled granular film first decreased and then increased with increasing measuring temperature, revealing a minimum value at certain temperature, Tmin. In a low temperature region (Tmin), the barrier between adjacent nanoclusters governed the electrical transport process, and the temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) showed an insulator-type behavior. The thermal fluctuationinduced tunneling conduction progressively increased with increasing temperature, which led to a decrease in the longitudinal resistivity. In a high temperature region, the TCR showed a metallictype behavior, which was primarily attributed to the temperature-dependent scattering. Different from the longitudinal resistivity behavior, the saturated anomalous Hall resistivity increased monotonically with increasing measuring temperature. The value of the anomalous Hall coefficient (RS) reached 2.3×10-9 (Ω cm)/G at 300 K, which was about three orders of magnitude larger than previously reported in blocky single-crystal Co [E. N. Kondorskii, Sov. Phys. JETP 38, 977 (1974)]. Interestingly, the scaling relation (ρA xyαργ xx) between saturated anomalous Hall resistivity (ρA xy) and longitudinal resistivity (ρxx) was divided into two regions by Tmin. However, after excluding the contribution of tunneling, the scaling relation followed the same rule. The corresponding physical mechanism was also proposed to explain these phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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