Journal article
Spin-flip induced magnetoresistance in positionally disordered organic solids
Physical review letters, Vol.108(18), pp.186602-186602
05/04/2012
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.186602
PMID: 22681098
Abstract
A model for magnetoresistance in positionally disordered organic materials is presented and solved using percolation theory. The model describes the effects of spin dynamics on hopping transport by considering changes in the effective density of hopping sites, a key quantity determining the properties of percolative transport. Faster spin-flip transitions open up "spin-blocked" pathways to become viable conduction channels and hence produce magnetoresistance. Features of this percolative magnetoresistance can be found analytically in several regimes, and agree with previous measurements, including the sensitive dependence of the magnetic-field dependence of the magnetoresistance on the ratio of the carrier hopping time to the hyperfine-induced carrier spin precession time. Studies of magnetoresistance in known systems with controllable positional disorder would provide an additional stringent test of this theory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Spin-flip induced magnetoresistance in positionally disordered organic solids
- Creators
- N J Harmon - University of IowaM E Flatté - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review letters, Vol.108(18), pp.186602-186602
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.186602
- PMID
- 22681098
- NLM abbreviation
- Phys Rev Lett
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- eISSN
- 1079-7114
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/04/2012
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199739602771
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