Wu, W.; Yu, Z. H.; Xu, M.; Liu, X. L.; Zhao, J. G.; Liu, Z. Y.; Xia, W.; Li, Z. Y.; Zhou, C. Y.; Feng, J. J.; Guo, Y. F.; Luo, J. L.

APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

2022, 128, 0947-8396

Wu, W.; Yu, Z. H.; Xu, M.; Liu, X. L.; Zhao, J. G.; Liu, Z. Y.; Xia, W.; Li, Z. Y.; Zhou, C. Y.; Feng, J. J.; Guo, Y. F.; Luo, J. L.

We fabricate CrP4 single crystal under high pressure and high temperature at 5 GPa and 1373 K. The comprehensive physical properties including electronic transport, magnetic properties, specific heat, Hall, thermal Seebeck and thermal conductivity are reported here. The resistivity shows a good metallic conductivity and T-2.7 law relation in the low temperature, which indicates a weak correlation of electrons. It is interesting to note that CrP4 shows large magnetoresistance (MR) of 500% under T = 2 K and B = 9 T, and the MR does not reach saturation until 9 T. The mechanism of large MR in CrP4 is interpreted as the Fermi surface anisotropy. The Hall measurement shows that there is only one single type of carriers in CrP4 with holes. CrP4 exhibits paramagnetic behavior observed from the magnetic susceptibility measurement. Though CrP4 exhibits high electrical conductivity, unexpected low thermal conductivity is observed at low temperature, which is due to the zigzag chain of CrP6 octahedra along the c-axis. Low thermal conductivity is useful to design thermoelectric materials or devices by properly doping in CrP4.