Current-Induced Insulator-Metal Transition and Pattern Formation in an Organic Charge-Transfer Complex
- 4 June 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5420), 1645-1647
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5420.1645
Abstract
Organic molecular Mott insulators, in which carriers are localized as a result of the electron correlation, showed nonlinear electric conduction upon application of a high electric field along the molecular stacking axis. The current-driven low-resistive state of potassium 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethanane was stabilized down to 2 kelvin, where a metallic path was visible with a microscope. The current flow caused a stripe-like periodic phase-segregation into the carrier-rich and carrier-poor regions along the current path.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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