The effect of magnetic impurity scattering in Au films

Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy - Tập 53 - Trang 1244-1247 - 2010
Xin Zhang1, XiaoHui Song1, YiRong Jin1, DianLin Zhang1
1Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

The magnetic impurity scattering plays an important role in the phase coherence behavior of thin films. By using the thickness and disorder dependences of the low temperature logarithmic anomaly in resistivity we are able to determine the concentration of magnetic impurities in Au films and demonstrate that the low temperature saturation or plateau in phase decoherence time is closely related with the Kondo effect.

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