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Synthesis and physical characterization of superconductivity-magnetism crossover compound RuSr2EuCeCu2O10-delta

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Title Synthesis and physical characterization of superconductivity-magnetism crossover compound RuSr2EuCeCu2O10-delta
 
Creator Awana, V. P. S.
Balamurugan, S.
Chandra, L. S. Sharath
Deshpande, A.
Ganesan, V.
Kishan, H.
Takayama-Muromachi, E.
Narlikar, A. V.
 
Subject Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
 
Description We carefully studied the nonsuperconducting sample of the magneto-superconducting RuSr2(Eu1-xCe)Cu2O10-delta series with composition RuSr2EuCeCU2O10-delta. This compound seems to exhibit a complex magnetic state as revealed by host of techniques like resistivity, thermopower, magnetic susceptibility, and MR measurements. The studied compound exhibited ferromagnetic like M(H) loops at 5, 20, and 50 K, and semiconductor like electrical conduction down to 5 K, with -MR7 T of up to 4% at low temperatures. The -MR7 (T) decreases fast above 150 K and monotonically becomes close to zero above say 230 K. Below, 150 K -MR7 (T) decreases to around 3% monotonically down to 75 K, with further increase to 4% at around 30 K and lastly having a slight decrease below this temperature. The thermopower S(7) behavior closely followed the -MR7 (T) steps in terms of d(S/T)/dT slopes. Further, both MR7 (T) steps and d(S/T)/dT slopes are found in close vicinity to various magnetic ordering temperatures (T-mag) of this compound.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/2569/1/160.pdf
Awana, V. P. S. and Balamurugan, S. and Chandra, L. S. Sharath and Deshpande, A. and Ganesan, V. and Kishan, H. and Takayama-Muromachi, E. and Narlikar, A. V. (2006) Synthesis and physical characterization of superconductivity-magnetism crossover compound RuSr2EuCeCu2O10-delta. Solid State Communications, 138. pp. 452-456. ISSN 0038-1098
 
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