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Specular Scattering in Electrical Transport in the Thin Tilm System CoSi2/Si

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

J. C. Hensel ,
R. T. Tung ,
J. M. Poate  and
F. C. Unterwald
J. C. Hensel
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
R. T. Tung
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
J. M. Poate
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
F. C. Unterwald
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
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Abstract

We have investigated electrical transport in thin films of CoSi2 at low temperatures as a function of film thickness and observe in conductivity a size effect much smaller than seen heretofore indicative of a high degree of specularity in the boundary scattering. This in large part owes to the unique characteristics of these films, i.e., they are single crystal and continuous down to ∼60Å thickness with long bulk scattering lengths (≈1000Å) in transport at liquid He temperatures and have nearly atomically perfect interfaces.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 37: Symposium D – Layered Structures, Epitaxy, and Interfaces , 1984 , 355
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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