NSF CAREER: Crystal-Chemical Relationships of Correlated Electronic Materials Julia Chan, Louisiana State University, DMR 0237664

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Examples of compounds showing large magnetoresistance (MR % = (ρH-ρ0)/ρ0 × 100 %). All measurements were performed on single crystals. Shown below are single crystals of intermetallic compounds discovered in our laboratory.

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