Sign-reversal of the in-plane resistivity anisotropy in hole-doped iron pnictides

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Blomberg, E C ^a,b   Tanatar, M A ^a,b   Fernandes, R M ^c   Mazin, I I ^d   Shen, Bing ^e,f   Wen, Hai Hu ^e,f   Johannes, M D ^d   Schmalian, J ^g   Prozorov, R ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON DERIVATIVE;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; RECONSTRUCTION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84878729225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2933     Document Type: Article

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