Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide an ideal platform to explore novel superconducting behavior including Ising superconductivity, topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in different 2D stoichiometric Ta-, Nb-, and Fe-based crystals. However, tuning the element content in 2D compounds for regulating their superconductivity has not been realized. In this work, we report the synthesis of high quality Fe1+yTe with tunable Fe content by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The quality and composition of Fe1+yTe are characterized by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The superconducting behavior of Fe1+yTe crystals with varying Fe contents is observed. The superconducting transition of selected Fe1.13Te sample is sharp ({\Delta}Tc = 1 K), while Fe1.43Te with a high-Fe content shows a relative broad superconducting transition ({\Delta}Tc = 2.6 K) at zero magnetic field. Significantly, the conspicuous vortex flow and a transition from a 3D vortex liquid state to a 2D vortex liquid state is observed in Fe1.43Te sample. Our work highlights the tunability of the superconducting properties of Fe1+yTe and sheds light on the vortex dynamics in Fe-based superconductors, which facilitates us to understand the intrinsic mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity.
@article{arxiv.2404.02420,
title = {High quality Fe1+yTe synthesized by chemical vapor deposition with conspicuous vortex flow},
author = {Lu Lv and Lihong Hu and Weikang Dong and Jingyi Duan and Ping Wang and Peiling Li and Fanming Qu and Li Lu and Zimeng Ye and Junhao Zhao and Jiafang Li and Fang Deng and Guangtong Liu and Jiadong Zhou and Yanfeng Gao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02420},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
30 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Advanced Functional Materials