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Abstract
Electronic transport near the insulator-metal transition is investigated in the molecular beam epitaxy-grown SrTiO3/Nd1-xTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures using temperature dependent magnetotransport measurements. It was found that Nd vacancies introduce localized electronic states resulting in variable range hopping transport at low temperatures. At a fixed Nd-vacancy concentration, a crossover from Mott to Efros-Shklovskii variable range hopping transport was observed with decreasing temperature. With increasing disorder, a sign reversal of magnetoresistance from positive to negative was observed revealing interplay between intra-state interaction and the energy dependence of the localization length. These findings highlight the important role of stoichiometry when exploring intrinsic effects using heterostructure and interfaces in addition to offering broad opportunities to tailor low temperature transport using nonstoichiometry defects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 065006 |
Journal | Physical Review Materials |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 27 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank B. Shklovskii, and Y. Ayino for valuable discussions. This work was primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the University of Minnesota Center for Quantum Materials, under Grant No. DE-SC-0016371. J.Y. acknowledges partial support through the Young Investigator Program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through Grant No. FA9550-16-1-0205. Parts of this work were carried out using the Dynacool instrument that is funded by the University of Minnesota National Science Foundation (NSF) MRSEC.
Funding Information:
We thank B. Shklovskii, and Y. Ayino for valuable discussions. This work was primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the University of Minnesota Center for Quantum Materials, under Grant No. DE-SC-0016371. J.Y. acknowledges partial support through the Young Investigator Program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through Grant No. FA9550-16-1-0205. Parts of this work were carried out using the Dynacool instrument that is funded by the University of Minnesota National Science Foundation (NSF) MRSEC.
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MRSEC IRG-1: Electrostatic Control of Materials
Leighton, C., Birol, T., Fernandes, R. M., Frisbie, D., Goldman, A. M., Greven, M., Jalan, B., Koester, S. J., He, T., Jeong, J. S., Koirala, S., Paul, A., Thoutam, L. R. & Yu, G.
11/1/14 → 10/31/20
Project: Research project
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