Robust tunability of magnetoresistance in half-Heusler RPtBi (R=Gd, Dy, Tm, and Lu) compounds

Mun, Eundeok; Bud'ko, Sergey L.; Canfield, Paul C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.115134

Robust tunability of magnetoresistance in half-Heusler $R PtBi$ ( $R = Gd$ , Dy, Tm, and Lu) compounds

Journal Article · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.115134· OSTI ID:1349903

Mun, Eundeok ^[1]; Bud'ko, Sergey L. ^[2]; Canfield, Paul C. ^[2]

Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC (Canada)
Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)

We present the magnetic field dependencies of transport properties for RPtBi (R = Gd, Dy, Tm, and Lu) half-Heusler compounds. Temperature- and field-dependent resistivity measurements of high-quality RPtBi single crystals reveal an unusually large, nonsaturating magnetoresistance (MR) up to 300 K under a moderate magnetic field of H = 140 kOe. At 300 K, the large MR effect decreases as the rare earth is traversed from Gd to Lu and the magnetic field dependence of MR shows a deviation from the conventional H² behavior. The Hall coefficient (R_H) for R = Gd indicates a sign change around 120 K, whereas R_H curves for R = Dy, Tm, and Lu remain positive for all measured temperatures. At 300 K, the Hall resistivity reveals a deviation from the linear field dependence for all compounds. Thermoelectric power measurements on this family show strong temperature and magnetic field dependencies which are consistent with resistivity measurements. A highly enhanced thermoelectric power under applied magnetic field is observed as high as ~100 μV/K at 140 kOe. Furthermore, analysis of the transport data in this series reveals that the rare-earth-based half-Heusler compounds provide opportunities to tune MR effect through lanthanide contraction and to elucidate the mechanism of nontrivial MR.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1349903

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1242844

Report Number(s):: IS-J--8987

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 93; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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