Microwave hall mobility and conductivity in crystals of various (BEDT-TTF) radical salts

Abstract

We report investigations of the microwave transport properties carried out on the organic conductors and superconductors of (BEDT-TTF)-salts: α-, αt- and β-(BEDT-TTF)2I3, α-(BEDT-TTF)3(NO3)2 and x-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2. The anisotropy and temperature dependence (300 K to 4 K) of the high-frequency conductivity was measured in a microwave cavity at 10.3 GHz. There is low anisotropy in the high conducting plane of the quasi two-dimensional crystals of the (BEDT-TTF)-family, e.g. the (a,b)-plane in β-(BEDT-TTF)2I3; perpendicular to this the microwave conductivity is one order of magnitude lower. At room temperature the microwave Hall mobility at 9.5 GHz of the different phases of (BEDT-TTF)2I3 and (BEDT-TTF)3(NO3)2 is 100 to 200 cm2/Vs in the high conducting planes of the crystals.