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The properties of ultrapure delafossite metals

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Date
03/2017
Author
Mackenzie, Andrew Peter
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/I031014/1
Keywords
High purity metals
Frustrated magnet
Photoemisson
de Haas van Alphen effect
QC Physics
QD Chemistry
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Abstract
Although they were first synthesized in chemistry laboratories nearly fifty years ago, the physical properties of the metals PdCoO2, PtCoO2 and PdCrO2 have only more recently been studied in detail. The delafossite structure contains triangular co-ordinated atomic layers, and electrical transport in the delafossite metals is strongly two-dimensional. Their most notable feature is their in-plane conductivity, which is amazingly high for oxide metals. At room temperature, the conductivity of non-magnetic PdCoO2 and PtCoO2 is higher per carrier than those of any alkali metal and even the most conductive elements, copper and silver. At low temperatures the best crystals have resistivities of a few nΩ cm, corresponding to mean free paths of tens of microns. PdCrO2 is a frustrated antiferromagnetic metal, with magnetic scattering contributing to the resistivity at high temperatures and small gaps opening in the Fermi surface below the Néel temperature. There is good evidence that electronic correlations are weak in the Pd/Pt layers but strong in the Co/Cr layers; indeed the Cr layer in PdCrO2 is thought to be a Mott insulator. The delafossite metals therefore act like natural heterostructures between strongly correlated and nearly free electron subsystems. Combined with the extremely high conductivity, they provide many opportunities to study electrical transport and other physical properties in new regimes. The purpose of this review is to describe current knowledge of these fascinating materials and set the scene for what is likely to be a considerable amount of future research.
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Mackenzie , A P 2017 , ' The properties of ultrapure delafossite metals ' , Reports on Progress in Physics , vol. 80 , no. 3 , 032501 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa50e5
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Reports on Progress in Physics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa50e5
ISSN
0034-4885
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© 2017, IOP Publishing Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at iopscience.iop.org / http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa50e5
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12470

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