Published November 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Logarithmic Divergence of the Electrical Resistivity in the Metal Hydride YH3-δ

  • 1. Institute COMPAS and the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  • 2. Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven (Belgium)

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As reported earlier, the metal hydride YHx reveals spectacular switchable optical properties. In this Letter we report on another remarkable property of the hydrogen deficient YH3-δ trihydride phase. A logarithmic temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity is observed within a large temperature range (20≤T≤200 K ) for hydrogen deficiencies 0.01<δ<0.15 . This dependence may be related to two dimensional weak localization or Kondo scattering of the conduction electrons. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
19
Journal Page Range
p. 3724-3727.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO