MAGNETOTRANSPORT MEASUREMENT ON THE LAMBDA-PHASE OF THE ORGANIC CONDUCTORS (BETS)2MCL4 (M=GA, FE) - MAGNETIC-FIELD-RESTORED HIGHLY CONDUCTING STATE IN LAMBDA(BETS)2FECL4
F. Goze et al., MAGNETOTRANSPORT MEASUREMENT ON THE LAMBDA-PHASE OF THE ORGANIC CONDUCTORS (BETS)2MCL4 (M=GA, FE) - MAGNETIC-FIELD-RESTORED HIGHLY CONDUCTING STATE IN LAMBDA(BETS)2FECL4, Europhysics letters, 28(6), 1994, pp. 427-431
Magnetotransport properties of two isostructural salts, the supercondu
cting lambda-(BETS)2GaCl4 phase and the first organic conductor contai
ning magnetic Fe3+ ions, lambda-(BETS)2FeCl4, where BETS is bis(ethyle
nedithio)tetraselenafulvalene, have been studied up to 37 T. The previ
ously reported sharp metal-insulator phase transition occurring at 8 K
under ambient pressure for lambda-(BETS)2FeCl4 is suppressed when app
lying magnetic fields > 10 T. This unusual phenomenon may be connected
to a field-induced ferromagnetic ordering of the Fe3+-ions moments. T
his could result in some kind of ''decondensation'' of the carriers, i
nitially condensed below 8 K, into a field-restored highly conducting
state (FRHCS). The temperature-magnetic-field (T-H) phase diagram is p
resented. The angle dependence of the critical field H(c2) has been de
termined for the superconducting lambda-(BETS)2GaCl4 phase at 4.2 K.