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We report the synthesis, crystal structure, superconductivity and physical property characterizations of the ternary equiatomic compound ScRuSi. Polycrystalline samples of ScRuSi were prepared by an arc-melting method. The as-prepared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-16 Bin-Bin Ruan , Xiao-Chuan Wang , Jia Yu , Bo-Jin Pan , Qing-Ge Mu , Tong Liu , Gen-Fu Chen , Zhi-An Ren

The phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity, approaching room temperature, has been realized in a number of hydrogen-dominant alloy systems under high pressure conditions1-12. A significant discovery in reaching room temperature…

This article updates version 1 by restricting consideration to only the resistive data and excluding the questioned 287.7-K datum reported for carbonaceous sulfur hydride in Snider et al., Nature $\textbf{585}$, 373 (2020). The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-18 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). The highest Tc that has been achieved in cuprates1 is 133 K at ambient pressure2 and 164 K at high pressures3. As the nature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-31 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan , V. Ksenofontov , S. I. Shylin

We report experimental discovery of tantalum polyhydride superconductor. It was synthesized at high pressure and high temperature conditions using diamond anvil cell combined with in-situ high pressure laser heating techniques. The…

Hydrogen-rich superhydrides are believed to be very promising high-T$_c$ superconductors, with experimentally observed critical temperatures near room temperature, as shown in recently discovered lanthanide superhydrides at very high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Evgeny Plekhanov , Zelong Zhao , Francesco Macheda , Yao Wei , Nicola Bonini , Cedric Weber

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,…

First-principles calculations were carried out to provide a chemical basis for proposed structures associated with the recently reported room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride material under pressure.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Xiaoyu Wang , Tiange Bi , Katerina P. Hilleke , Anmol Lamichhane , Russell J. Hemley , Eva Zurek

We investigate the superconductivity of carbon compounds with a sodalite structure, which are similar to hydrogen compounds showing the high-temperature superconductivity. A systematic analysis by first-principles calculations is carried…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Kazuhiro Sano , Yoshimi Masuda , Hiroki Ito

The discovery of a record high superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 K in a pressurized hydride inspires new hope to realize ambient condition superconductivity. Here, we give a perspective on the theoretical and experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-21 Dong Wang , Yang Ding , Ho-Kwang Mao

Lanthanum hydride is the superconductor with the highest known critical temperature. It is believed that the superconductivity is of standard BCS-type, with electrons forming Cooper pairs and opening the superconducting band gap. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-09 Sebastiaan van de Bund , Graeme J. Ackland

We propose a superlattice model to describe superconductivity in layered materials, such as the borocarbide families with the chemical formul\ae\ $RT_2$B$_2$C and $RT$BC, with $R$ being (essentially) a rare earth, and $T$ a transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Thereza Paiva , Mohammed El-Massalami , Raimundo R. dos Santos

It is challenging to search for high Tc superconductivity (SC) in transition metal elements wherein d electrons are usually not favored by conventional BCS theory. Here we report discovery of surprising SC up to 310 GPa with Tc above 20 K…

Experimental measurements clearly reveal the presence of bulk superconductivity in the CsPbxBi4-xTe6 (0.3=<x=<1.0) materials, i.e. the first member of the thermoelectric series of Cs[PbmBi3Te5+m], these materials have the layered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 R. X. Zhang , H. X. Yang , H. F. Tain , G. F. Chen , S. L. Wu , L. L. Wei , J. Q. Li

Superconductivity is a remarkably widespread phenomenon observed in most metals cooled down to very low temperatures. The ubiquity of such conventional superconductors, and the wide range of associated critical temperatures, is readily…

Motivated by the recent report of superconductivity above 200 K in ultra-dense hydrogen sulfide, we search for high-\tc\ conventional superconductivity in the phase diagram of the binary Li-S system, using {\em ab-initio} methods for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-10 Christian Kokail , Christoph Heil , Lilia Boeri

Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon characterized by zero electrical resistance and the Meissner effect. To date, several distinct families of superconductors (SCs) have been discovered. These include three-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-27 Xiaoming Zhang , Yinong Zhou , Bin Cui , Mingwen Zhao , Feng Liu

Superconductivity has been first observed in TlNi$_2$Se$_2$ at T$_C$=3.7 K and appears to involve heavy electrons with an effective mass $m^*$=14$\sim$20 $m_b$, as inferred from the normal state electronic specific heat and the upper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-20 Hangdong Wang , Chiheng Dong , Qianhui Mao , Rajwali Khan , Xi Zhou , Zhenxia Li , Bin Chen , Jinhu Yang , Qiping Su , Minghu Fang

With the motivation of discovering high-temperature superconductors, evolutionary algorithm is employed to search for all stable compounds in the Sn-H system. In addition to the traditional SnH$_4$, new hydrides SnH$_8$, SnH$_{12}$ and…

We show that the superhard boride WB$_{4.2}$ is a superconductor with a T$_c$ of 2.05(5) K. Temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, and specific heat measurements were used to characterize the superconducting…