Continuously tunable temperature coefficient of resistivity in antiperovskite AgN1−xCxMn3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15)
Continuously tunable temperature coefficient of resistivity in antiperovskite AgN1−xCxMn3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15)
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4903699
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发表时间:
2014-12
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
J. Lin;P. Tong;S. Lin;B. Wang;W. Song;Y. Sun
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作者:
J. Lin;P. Tong;S. Lin;B. Wang;W. Song;Y. Sun
The antiperovskite intermetallic compounds AgN1−xCxMn3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15) have been synthesized. As x increases, the temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) above room temperature decreases monotonically and finally changes the sign from positive to negative above x = 0.1. Meanwhile, the temperature range is gradually broadened. For x = 0.07, TCR is ∼3.1 ppm/K between 280 K and 375 K. Both the resistivity and its slope are insensitive to the external magnetic field, indicating an insignificant contribution from magnetic scattering or short-range magnetic ordering to the observed low-TCR. As manifested by the Hall effect, the charge carrier density in the paramagnetic state for x = 0.15 is reduced by an order of magnitude in comparison with that for x = 0. The reduction of carrier density and the enhancive disorders when x increases was proposed to be responsible for the decrease in TCR and its sign switch.