Metallic to insulating transition in disordered pulsed laser deposited silicide thin films

A metal-to-insulating transition has been observed in iron, iron oxide, iron silicide and cobalt silicide thin films when deposited on Si substrate with a native SiOx layer. This transition produced a change in resistance of 5 orders of magnitude at a temperature of 250 K. To the best of the author&...

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Main Author: Abou Mourad, Houssam
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2005
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2768
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3767&context=etd