Observation of the Magnetic-Field-Induced Semimetal-Semiconductor Transition in Bi under Megagauss Fields
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (18), 1339-1342
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.1339
Abstract
The magnetic-field-induced semimetal-semiconductor transition has been observed in Bi under very high magnetic fields parallel to the binary axis. The transition was observed at 88 T as a change of the transmission of the far-infrared radiation at 337-μm wavelength at low temperature. The field position of the transition as well as the positions of absorption peaks arising from the Shubnikov-de Haas effect were analyzed in terms of newly determined band parameters.Keywords
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