We report the observation of resistivity saturation in lightly doped ($x=0.08)$ as-grown samples of the electron-doped cuprate ${\mathrm{La}}_{2-x}{\mathrm{Ce}}_x{\mathrm{CuO}}_4$. The saturation occurs at resistivity values roughly consistent with the phenomenological Mott-Ioffe-Regel criterion once the low effective carrier density of these materials is included in the analysis. These results imply that, at least for light doping, the high-temperature metallic phase of these materials is not necessarily strange and may be understood as simply a low-density metal.

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• Electrical conductivity
• Fermi surface
• Impurities in superconductors
• Superconducting fluctuations
• Cuprates
• High-temperature superconductors
• Methods in superconductivity
• Physical deposition
• Resistivity measurements