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AgSbTe2 is a well-known thermoelectric material with a high Seebeck coefficient and intrinsically low thermal conductivity, but its behavior under pressure remains largely unexplored. Here we report a systematic investigation of the…

We report for the first time the occurrence of superconductivity in the quaternary silicide carbide YRe2SiC with Tc = 5.9 K. The emergence of superconductivity was confirmed by means of magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, and…

We successfully grew the high-quality single crystal of Rb$_{0.78}$Fe$_2$Se$_{1.78}$, which shows sharp superconducting transition in magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity. Resistivity measurements show the onset…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-02 A. F. Wang , J. J. Ying , Y. J. Yan , R. H. Liu , X. G. Luo , Z. Y. Li , X. F. Wang , M. Zhang , G. J. Ye , P. Cheng , Z. J. Xiang , X. H. Chen

We have performed powder neutron diffraction on the new superconductor, CeNi$_{0.8}$Bi$_2$ with a superconducting transtion temperature $T_\textrm{c} \sim$ 4.2 K. The structural parameters of this compound at room temperature are determined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Kodama , S. Wakimoto , N. Igawa , S. Shamoto , H. Mizoguchi , H. Hosono

Specific heat has been measured down to 600 mK and up to 8 Tesla by the highly sensitive AC microcalorimetry on the MgCNi3 single crystals with Tc ~ 7 K. Exponential decay of the electronic specific heat at low temperatures proved that a…

The specific heat of high-purity $\rm Ba_{0.68}K_{0.32}Fe_2As_2$ single crystals with the highest reported superconducting $T_c$ = 38.5 K was studied. The electronic specific heat, $C_p$, below $T_c$ shows two gap features, with $\Delta_1…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-08 P. Popovich , A. V. Boris , O. V. Dolgov , A. A. Golubov , D. L. Sun , C. T. Lin , R. K. Kremer , B. Keimer

The low-temperature specific heat of a superconductor Mo3Sb7 with T_c = 2.25 (0.05) K has been measured in magnetic fields up to 5 T. In the normal state, the electronic specific heat coefficient gamma_n, and the Debye temperature Theta_D…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-21 V. H. Tran , W. Miiller , Z. Bukowski

The large size single crystals of (SnSe)$_{1.16}$(NbSe$_2$) misfit layered compound were grown and superconductivity with $T_c$ of 3.4 K was first discovered in this system. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and high resolution transmission…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Hua Bai , Xiaohui Yang , Yi Liu , Meng Zhang , Mengmeng Wang , Yupeng Li , Jiang Ma , Qian Tao , Yanwu Xie , Guanghan Cao , Zhu-An Xu

We report a comprehensive investigation of the physical properties of LuOs3B2, characterized by an ideal Os-based kagome lattice. Resistivity and magnetization measurements confirm the emergence of type-II bulk superconductivity with a…

We report here the properties of single crystals of La$_2$Ni$_2$In. Electrical resistivity and specific heat measurements concur with the results of Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, finding that La$_{2}$Ni$_{2}$In is a weakly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Jannis Maiwald , Igor I. Mazin , Alex Gurevich , Meigan Aronson

We report the superconductivity at Tc ~ 0.049 K in Laves phase HfZn2. Based on the first principles method we have studied the details structural and electronic properties of HfZn2 according to which there are 4.67 states eV-1 fu-1 at Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-17 Md. Zahidur Rahaman , Md. Atikur Rahman

We report the observation of superconductivity in high-quality Cd$_2$Re$_2$O$_7$ single crystals with room-temperature pyrochlore structure. Resistivity and ac susceptibility measurements establish an onset transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Jin , J. He , S. McCall , C. S. Alexander , F. Drymiotis , D. Mandrus

We report the superconductivity of PbTaS2 single crystals with the centrosymmetric structure. The systematic measurements of magnetization, electric transport and specific heat indicate that PbTaS2 is a weakly coupled type-II superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-22 J. J. Gao , J. G. Si , X. Luo , J. Yan , Z. Z. Jiang , W. Wang , C. Q. Xu , X. F. Xu , P. Tong , W. H. Song , X. B. Zhu , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun

In this letter, we present the superconducting property characterization of a phase pure reasonably good quality YBa2Cu3O7-{\delta} sample. Studied compound is crystallized in orthorhombic Pmmm space group with lattice parameters a, b, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-21 Rajveer Jha , Poonam Rani , V. P. S Awana

The noncentrosymmetric superconductor AuBe have been investigated using the magnetization, resistivity, specific heat, and muon-spin relaxation/rotation measurements. AuBe crystallizes in the cubic FeSi-type B20 structure with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-17 D. Singh , A. D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

SrPt$_2$As$_2$ single crystals with CaBe$_2$Ge$_2$-type structure were synthesized by self-melting technique. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, electrical resistivity, specific heat and optical spectroscopy measurements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-30 A. F. Fang , T. Dong , H. P. Wang , Z. G. Chen , B. Cheng , Y. G. Shi , P. Zheng , G. Xu , L. Wang , J. Q. Li , N. L. Wang

The optical properties of the superconducting single crystal Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.68}$Se$_2$ with $T_{c}$ $\simeq$ 31 K have been measured over a wide frequency range in the $ab$ plane. We found that the optical conductivity is dominated by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 B. Xu , Y. M. Dai , J. Han , K. Wang , R. Yang , Y. X. Yang , W. Zhang , H. Xiao , X. G. Qiu

We explore both experimental and theoretical aspects of the superconducting properties in the distinctive layered caged compound, Ba$_{3}$Ir$_{4}$Ge$_{16}$. Our approach integrates muon spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR) measurements…

We report the discovery of superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric NbReSi, which crystallizes in a hexagonal ZrNiAl-type crystal structure with space group $P\bar{6}2m$ (No.~189). Bulk superconductivity, with $T_c$ = 6.5 K was characterized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-24 H. Su , T. Shang , F. Du , C. F. Chen , H. Q. Ye , X. Lu , C. Cao , M. Smidman , H. Q. Yuan

The electronic properties of ScPdGe and ScPdSi, crystallizing in the hexagonal ZrNiAl and orthorhombic TiNiSi structures, respectively, are investigated. ScPdGe and ScPdSi are found to show bulk superconductivity below 0.9 and 1.7 K,…