Giant semiclassical magnetoresistance in high mobility TaAs{sub 2} semimetal
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)
- Department of Physics, Center for Optoelectronics Materials and Devices, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018 (China)
We report the observation of colossal positive magnetoresistance (MR) in single crystalline, high mobility TaAs{sub 2} semimetal. The excellent fit of MR by a single quadratic function of the magnetic field B over a wide temperature range (T = 2–300 K) suggests the semiclassical nature of the MR. The measurements of Hall effect and Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, as well as band structure calculations, suggest that the giant MR originates from the nearly perfectly compensated electrons and holes in TaAs{sub 2}. The quadratic MR can even exceed 1 200 000% at B = 9 T and T = 2 K, which is one of the largest values among those of all known semi-metallic compounds, including the very recently discovered WTe{sub 2} and NbSb{sub 2}. The giant positive magnetoresistance in TaAs{sub 2} not only has a fundamentally different origin from the negative colossal MR observed in magnetic systems but also provides a nice complemental system that will be beneficial for applications in magnetoelectronic devices.
- OSTI ID:
- 22489359
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 4; Other Information: (c) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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