Magnetotransport in Half-Metallic Manganese Ruthenium Gallium

The recently discovered fully-compensated half-metal, manganese ruthenium gallium (MRG), is a very promising material for spintronics. It possesses tunable magnetic moment, high magnetic anisotropy field and high spin polarisation. Here, we use the extraordinary Hall effect and longitudinal magnetoresistance to characterise the properties of MRG. Experiments are carried out in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T at the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD). The spin-flop transition, as well as a large spontaneous Hall angle are observed. The spontaneous Hall angle is over 2% and is seen to be independent of temperature. The magneto-transport in MRG is shown to be dominated by one sublattice only, even at the magnetic compensation temperature (i.e. when the total magnetic moment is zero). MRG behaves magnetically an antiferromagnet and electrically as a normal ferromagnet with a sizeable spin-polarisation.