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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32387-1
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- NRF - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning [2012R1A3A2048816]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2015R1D1A1A01060382]
- [NRF-2014R1A1A2058975]
- [NRF-2016R1A6A3A11933107]
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The recent observation of extremely large magnetoresistance (MR) in the transition-metal dichalcogenide MoTe2 has attracted considerable interest due to its potential technological applications as well as its relationship with novel electronic states predicted for a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal. In order to understand the origin of the MR, the electronic structure of MoTe2-x (x = 0.08) is systematically tuned by application of pressure and probed via its Hall and longitudinal conductivities. With increasing pressure, a monoclinic-to-orthorhombic (1T' to T-d) structural phase transition temperature (T*) gradually decreases from 210 K at 1 bar to 58 K at 1.1 GPa, and there is no anomaly associated with the phase transition at 1.4 GPa, indicating that a T = 0 K quantum phase transition occurs at a critical pressure (P-c) between 1.1 and 1.4 GPa. The large MR observed at 1 bar is suppressed with increasing pressure and is almost saturated at 100% for P > P-c. The dependence on magnetic field of the Hall and longitudinal conductivities of MoTe2-x shows that a pair of electron and hole bands are important in the low-pressure T-d phase, while another pair of electron and hole bands are additionally required in the high-pressure 1T' phase. The MR peaks at a characteristic hole-to-electron concentration ratio (n(c)) and is sharply suppressed when the ratio deviates from n(c) within the T-d phase. These results establish the comprehensive temperature-pressure phase diagram of MoTe2-x and underscore that its MR originates from balanced electron-hole carrier concentrations.
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