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AIP ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4978591
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- NSF, DMR Award [DMREF: SusChEM 1436385]
- National Science Foundation [ECCS: 1542182]
- Nebraska Research Initiative
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Structural and electron-transport properties of thin films of the ferrimagnetic Heusler compound CoFeCrAl have been investigated to elucidate structure-property relationships. The alloy is, ideally, a spin-gapless semiconductor, but structural disorder destroys the spin-gapless character and drastically alters the transport behavior. Two types of CoFeCrAl films were grown by magnetron sputtering deposition at 973 K, namely polycrystalline films on Si substrates and epitaxial films on MgO (001) substrates. The resistivity decreases with increasing temperature, with relatively small temperature coefficients of -0.19 mu Omega cm/K for the polycrystalline films and -0.12 mu Omega cm/K for the epitaxial films. The residual resistivity of the polycrystalline films deposited on Si is higher than that of the epitaxial film deposited on MgO, indicating that the polycrystalline films behave as so-called dirty metals. (C) 2017 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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