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Quasi-two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) exhibit dramatic properties that may transform electronic and photonic devices. We report on how the anomalously large magnetoresistance (MR) observed under high magnetic field in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-21 Junjie Yang , Jonathan Colen , Jun Liu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Gia-Wei Chern , Despina Louca

Extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) was recently discovered in many non-magnetic materials, while its underlying mechanism remains poorly understood due to the complex electronic structure of these materials. Here, we report an…

We have observed a large positive quasi-classical magneto-resistance (MR) in a high mobility 2D electron gas in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. The magneto-resistance is non-saturating and increases with magnetic field as $\rho_{xx}\sim…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent T. F Renard , Ze Don Kvon , G M Gusev , J. C Portal

Non-stoichiometry effect on the extreme magnetoresistance is systematically investigated for the Weyl semimetal WTe2. Magnetoresistance and Hall resistivity are measured for the as-grown samples with a slight difference in Te vacancies and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-07 J. X. Gong , J. Yang , M. Ge , Y. J. Wang , D. D. Liang , L. Luo , X. Yan , W. L. Zhen , S. R. Weng , L. Pi , C. J. Zhang , W. K. Zhu

The magnetoresistance (MR) of a material is typically insensitive to reversing the applied field direction and varies quadratically with magnetic field in the low-field limit. Quantum effects [1], unusual topological band structures [2],…

WTe2 has attracted a great deal of attention because it exhibits extremely large and nonsaturating magnetoresistance. The underlying origin of such a giant magnetoresistance is still under debate. Utilizing laser-based angle-resolved…

We synthesized nonmagnetic PtBi$_2$ single crystals and observed a giant linear magneto-resistance (MR) up to 684\% under a magnetic field $\mu_0H$ = 15 T at $T$ = 2 K. The linear MR decreases with increasing temperature, but it is still as…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiaojun Yang , Hua Bai , Zhen Wang , Yupeng Li , Qian Chen , Jian Chen , Yuke Li , Chunmu Feng , Yi Zheng , Zhu-an Xu

We have investigated the magnetoresistive behavior of Dirac semi-metal Cd3As2 down to low temperatures and in high magnetic fields. A positive and linear magnetoresistance (LMR) as large as 3100% is observed in a magnetic field of 14 T, on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Junya Feng , Yuan Pang , Desheng Wu , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng , Jianqi Li , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Youguo Shi , Li Lu

We report a magnetotransport study of an ultra-high mobility ($\bar{\mu}\approx 25\times 10^6$\,cm$^2$\,V$^{-1}$\,s$^{-1}$) $n$-type GaAs quantum well up to 33 T. A strong linear magnetoresistance (LMR) of the order of 10$^5$ % is observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 T. Khouri , U. Zeitler , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , N. E. Hussey , S. Wiedmann , J. C. Maan

We have grown the MoAs$_2$ single crystal which crystallizes in a monoclinic structure with C2/m space group. Transport measurements show that MoAs$_2$ displays a metallic behavior at zero field and undergoes a metal-to-semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-28 Jialu Wang , Lin Li , Wei You , Tingting Wang , Chao Cao , Jianhui Dai , Yuke Li

We report on a systematic study of Hall effect using high quality single crystals of type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2 with the applied magnetic field B//c. The residual resistivity ratio of 1330 and the large magnetoresistance of 1.5\times10^6 %…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-03 Rajveer Jha , Ryuji Higashinaka , Tatsuma D. Matsuda , Raquel A. Ribeiro , Yuji Aoki

Linear magnetoresistance (LMR) is of particular interest for memory, electronics, and sensing applications, especially when it does not saturate over a wide range of magnetic fields. One of its principal origins is local mobility or density…

The change of a material's electrical resistance (R) in response to an external magnetic field (B) provides subtle information for the characterization of its electronic properties and has found applications in sensor and storage related…

We have studied the magnetotransport properties of a Sb$_2$Se$_2$Te single crystal. Magnetoresistance (MR) is maximum when the magnetic field is perpendicular to the sample surface and reaches to a value of 1100\% at $B$=31 T with no sign…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 K. Shrestha , V. Marinova , D. Graf , B. Lorenz , C. W. Chu

We present a detailed study of magnetoresistance \r{ho}xx(H), Hall effect \r{ho}xy(H), and electrolyte gating effect in thin (<100 nm) exfoliated crystals of WTe2. We observe quantum oscillations in H of both \r{ho}xx(H) and \r{ho}xy(H),…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-18 Yilin Wang , Kefeng Wang , Janice Reutt-Robey , Johnpierre Paglione , Michael S. Fuhrer

WTe2 semimetal, as a typical layered transition-metal dichalcogenide, has recently attracted much attention due to the extremely large, non-saturating parabolic magnetoresistance in perpendicular field. Here, we report a systematic study of…

The quantum oscillations of the magnetoresistance under ambient and high pressure have been studied for WTe$_2$ single crystals, in which extremely large magnetoresistance was discovered recently. By analyzing the Shubnikov-de Haas…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 P. L. Cai , J. Hu , L. P. He , J. Pan , X. C. Hong , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Wei , Z. Q. Mao , S. Y. Li

The diverse electronic properties of transition metal chalcogenides can be very sensitive to crystal imperfections. A new crystal growth technique, known as horizontal flux transport, offers a route to improved crystal quality. By refining…

The progress in exploiting new electronic materials and devices has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), particularly a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent…

After growing successfully high quality VP$_2$ single crystals, we studied systematically their longitudinal $\rho_{xx}(T)$ and Hall resistivity $\rho_{yx}(T)$ at various magnetic fields, combining the electronic band and Fermi surface (FS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-30 Chunxiang Wu , Shuijin Chen , Tingyu Zhou , Le Liu , Xin Peng , Jianjian Jia , Xinyu Yu , Hangdong Wang , Jinhu Yang , Jianhua Du , Minghu Fang