2022
Physics of the Solid State, Q4
Article
Physics of the Solid State
Springer
N.G. Galkin, K.N. Galkin, A.V. Tupkalo, E.Yu. Subbotin, I.M. Chernev, A.V. Shevlyagin and V.V. Khovailo, Physics of the Solid State, 2022, Vol. 64, No. 12, pp. 616–623
—Nanocrystalline CaSi films with thicknesses from 80 to 130 nm were grown on high-resistance silicon substrates with orientations (111) and (100) by the methods of low-temperature (190–330°C) molecularbeam epitaxy and low-temperature (330°C) solid-phase epitaxy, for which the microstructure, phase composition, and crystal structures were studied. It is found that the polycrystalline, nanocrystalline (NC), and amorphous CaSi and CaSi2 films are characterized by preferential contribution of holes in the range 1.4– 300 K. In magnetic fields 1–4 T and at temperatures 40–100 K, a giant linear magnetoresistive effect (MRE) (to 500%) was observed for the first time in CaSi films with the contribution of another CaSi2 phase. In CaSi2 film containing another phase (CaSi), peaks are detected on the temperature dependences of the resistivity and the Hall coefficient that correspond to a phase transition. In addition, in this film, the transition from the positive MRE to negative MRE is observed at Т = 120–200 K. This effect is not observed in the single-phase CaSi2 film, which corresponds to a certain reconstruction of carrier flows in a magnetic field only in the twophase system. The study of the thermoelectric properties of CaSi and CaSi2 films shows that the semimetallic type of the conduction in them leads to the independence of the positive Seebeck coefficient Т = 330–450 K. It is found that the maximum contribution to the Seebeck coefficient and the power factor are observed in the amorphous CaSi film in the case of the presence of some fraction of NC Ca2Si phase. In the single-phase CaSi2 films, the Seebeck coefficient and the power factor are halved due to an increase in the hole concentration as compared to the CaSi films.
https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783422120034