THERMOELECTRIC-POWER OF A DISORDERED METAL NEAR THE METAL-INSULATOR-TRANSITION

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LAKNER, M
VONLOHNEYSEN, H
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[1] Physikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3475
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The thermoelectric power S of uncompensated Si:P with P concentration N near the metal-insulator transition occurring at N(c) has been measured at very low temperatures (0.04 less-than-or-equal-to T less-than-or-equal-to 3 K). For N >> N(c), S is negative and shows the linear T dependence of a metal, whereas close to N(c) an anomalous behavior with a sign change of S at low T is observed. The strong dependence of S on magnetic fields up to 6 T relates the anomaly to magnetic scattering, thus giving the first experimental evidence for localized moments near the metal-insulator transition in a transport property,
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