Journal
SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 149, Issue 19-20, Pages 759-762Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2009.03.002
Keywords
Magnetically ordered materials; Semiconductors; Galvanomagnetic effects; Neutron scattering
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- RFBR [07-08-00338]
- Quantum macro-physics Program [10104-37/I-3/040-348/130607-022, 4]
- Presidium of RAS [18]
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Synthetic single-crystalline samples of Fe3O4 magnetite were subjected to fast neutron bombardment with a fluency Phi = 2.2 x 10(20) cm(-2). A comparative study of the electrical resistivity p, normal (ordinary) and anomalous (extraordinary) Hall effects, and the magnetoresistance in a temperature range from 50 to 400 K (i.e across the Verwey transition (VT) at T-V similar to 125 K) was performed on both as grown and irradiated samples. The galvanomagnetic properties were investigated in magnetic fields B up to 13.6 T. From the normal (ordinary) Hall effect the concentration of charge carriers was determined. The activation energy was also estimated. On the Verwey transition the conductivity type was changed form electronic to hole. Contrary to expectations, the fast neutron irradiation resulted only in a minor decrease in T-V by similar to 4 K The results gathered evidence against a distributed opinion that the charge ordering on the octahedral sites in the spinel structure of Fe3O4 is a major driving factor of the Verwey transition. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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