New mechanism of negative magnetoresistivity discovered
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 14:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A research group measured the magnetoresistive effects -- change in conductivity in response to an applied magnetic field -- using palladium-cobalt oxide (PdCoO2), a non-magnetic, highly conductive material. As a result, when a magnetic field was applied to PdCoO2, the group observed significant phenomena (negative magnetoresistivity), the conductivity greatly increased with increasing magnetic field. This is the first observation of such phenomena in a magnetic and highly conductive material.