1/f noise in the half-metallic oxides CrO2, Fe3O4, and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3
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B. Raquet, J.M.D. Coey, S. Wirth, S. von Molnar '1/f noise in the half-metallic oxides CrO2, Fe3O4, and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3' in Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 59, (19) 1999, pp 12435-12443Download Item:
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The excess low-frequency (1/f) electrical noise of three representative half-metallic oxides, CrO2, Fe3O4, and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3, has been studied as a function of the temperature (5?300 K) and a magnetic field (up to 12 T). In CrO2 and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3, the resistance fluctuations are investigated in the metallic regime, below Tc. The magnetite noise is measured across the Verwey transition, in the hopping regime. We find, in all these oxides, a high normalized noise level which roughly follows the temperature dependence of the resistivity. For CrO2 and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3, the form of the density of state of the responsible excitations is inferred. Oxygen displacement around grain boundaries, magnetic fluctuations, and reversed-spin electronic excitations in the band structure are discussed as possible explanations of the low-frequency fluctuations. For Fe3O4, the 1/f noise and its temperature dependence are attributed to fluctuations of the number of carriers in a critical network.
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