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| Author(s): |
Fábio Machado Ardito
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin |
| Defense date: | 2010-03-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva;
Paulo Pureur Neto;
Fernando Cerdeira
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| Advisor: | Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva; Juan Carlos Paredes Campoy |
| Abstract | |
The Raman Spectroscopy is a powerful and versatile tool in the investigation of structural and electronic phases transitions, specially when allied with the possibility of reaching high magnetic fields and low temperatures. In this project, we introduce an assembly capable of characterizing electronic transport properties simultaneously to the Raman spectra acquisition, in such conditions, allowing in situ verification of the macroscopic behavior of the material under study. We describe in this dissertation the procedures of assembly, configuration, automation and optimization of such system. Very low noise levels were obtained, in agreement with the specifications of the instruments used in this system. The assembly was employed in two cases of interest for solid stat physics. First, Landau Levels in highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), due to energy quantization of charge carriers by a magnetic field, were directly observed by Raman spectroscopy. Simultaneously, magnetor sistanc and Hall effect measurements were carried out for HOPG, attesting the reproducibility of quantum effects already reported in the literature . Also, the origin of giant spin-phonon coupling into the double perovskit Ba2FeReO6 was investigated by obtaining the frequency of the oxygen stretching mode at low temperatures and under a magnetic field of 1.5 tesla, simultaneously to magnetoresistance measurements. The latter were taken as an indirect probe of the relative orientation of the magnetic domains in the material, proving that the Raman experiments with field were obtained with oriented domains. The absence of any change in the frequency of this mode with field indicat that the orbital degree of freedom of the Re 5d electrons is not important for the mechanism of spin-phonon coupling in this material (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 07/06883-0 - Simultaneous study of Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport at low temperatures and high magnetic fields in MgB2 |
| Grantee: | Fábio Machado Ardito |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |