Large negative magnetoresistance induced by anionic solid solutions in two-dimensional spin-frustrated transition metal chalcogenides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Guo, Yuqiao ^a   Dai, Jun ^b   Zhao, Jiyin ^a   Wu, Changzheng ^a   Li, Dianqi ^a   Zhang, Lidong ^c   Ning, Wei ^d   Tian, Mingliang ^d   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^a,b   Xie, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; TRANSITION METALS;

ANTIFERRO-MAGNETICALLY COUPLED; LARGE NEGATIVE MAGNETORESISTANCE; NEGATIVE MAGNETO-RESISTANCE; SOLID SOLUTION PROCESS; SPIN DEPENDENT SCATTERING; TRANSITION METAL CHALCOGENIDES; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR; ULTRATHIN NANOSHEETS;

SOLID SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84907835164     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.157202     Document Type: Article

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