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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
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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