%0 Journal Article %A S.B Ogale %A V Talyansky %A C.H Chen %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A R.L Greene %A T Venkatesan %B Physical Review Letters %D 1996 %G eng %P 1159-1162 %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1159 %T Unusual Electric field effects in Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3 %V 77 %X Enhanced electric field (E) induced modulation of the resistance of epitaxial thin films of Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3has been observed. The results show several remarkable features: first, field-direction-independent decrease of the resistance above the temperature at which the peak in resistivity occurs (Tp); second, proportionality of the modulation to E2; third, a reduction in the magnitude and field-direction-independent reversal of the sign of ΔR/R just below Tp; and fourth, a prompt time response at high temperatures and a slower response near Tp. These results are consistent with a model of a polarization-induced lattice distortion coupling with both spin and charge transport. © 1996 The American Physical Society.