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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 87, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2045553
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The magnetoresistance of high-quality epitaxial doped ZnO(:Ga) thin films with various electron concentrations ranging from 3.2x10(18) to 1.3x10(20) cm(-3) has been measured. All samples investigated exhibit a negative magnetoresistance at low magnetic fields. Its magnitude systematically depends on carrier concentration and temperature. Low-doped samples switch the sign of the magnetoresistance and the conventional positive component dominates at high fields, whereas highly doped degenerate samples only show a negative component up to fields of 14.5 T. Therefore, the data are analyzed as the sum of a positive and negative contribution to the magnetoresistance applying a semiempirical expression to describe the observed behavior. The model takes into account third-order s-d exchange Hamiltonians describing the negative part and a two-band model for the positive contribution. Least-squares fits to the data are presented. Theory and experiment are in excellent agreement. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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