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Phonon-Assisted Electron Hopping Conduction in the Uranium Doped One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet Ca2CuO3
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 13, Number 4, 31 Dec 2008, Pages 132-135
Phung Quoc Thanh(Center for Materials Science, College of Science, Vietnam National University), Seong-Cho Yu* (Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University), Hoang-Nam Nhat(Center for Materials Science, College of Science, Vietnam National University)
Abstract
The authors studied the conduction mechanism in an uranium doped low dimensional magnetic system Ca2CuO3. This system exhibits the S=1/2 quasi 1D antiferromagnetic chains of -Cu-O- with strong magnetic coupling, and demonstrates continuous semiconductor-like behavior with constant covalent insulator character. This paper identifies the conduction is due to thermally activated phonon-assisted electron hopping between dopant uranium sites. The parameter a, the characteristic for hopping probability, was determined to be 0.18Å-1 . This value manifests a relatively stronger hopping probability for Ca2CuO3 as compared with other uranium doped ceramics.
Keywords: uranium; phonon-assisted; conduction; antiferromagnet
DOI: 10.4283/JMAG.2008.13.4.132
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