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Superconductivity has been one of the focal points in medium and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs) since the first discovery of the HEA superconductor in 2014. Until now, most HEAs' superconducting transition temperature (Tc) has not exceeded…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingyong Zeng , Jie Wang , Hongyu Liu , Longfu Li , Jinjun Qin , Yucheng Li , Rui Chen , Jing Song , Yusheng Hou , Huixia Luo

We have synthesized high-entropy-alloy-type (HEA-type) RE123 superconductors Y0.28Nd0.16Sm0.18Eu0.18Gd0.20Ba2Cu3O7-d and Y0.18La0.24Nd0.14Sm0.14Eu0.15Gd0.15Ba2Cu3O7-d with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) exceeding 90 K. From…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 Yuta Shukunami , Aichi Yamashita , Yosuke Goto , Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are at the focus of current research for their diverse properties, including superconductivity and structural polymorphism. However, the polymorphic transition has been observed only in nonsuperconducting HEAs and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-16 Jifeng Wu , Bin Liu , Yanwei Cui , Qinqing Zhu , Guorui Xiao , Hangdong Wang , Siqi Wu , Guang-han Cao , Zhi Ren

Medium or high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs) and rhenium-based compounds with a non-centrosymmetric (NC) structure have received a lot of attention for offering a fertile soil in search for unconventional superconductivity. Here, five…

High-entropy alloys are characterized by high configurational entropy. Since the discovery of high-entropy alloys (HEA) in 2004, entropy engineering has provided a promising direction for exploiting composition, lattice disorder, band…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-12 S. Joseph Poon , Jian He

We report single phase superconducting face centered cubic (FCC) intermetallic high entropy alloys (HEAs) synthesized via splat cooling. The single phase materials fall at electron counts in the HEA superconductor alloy family where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-15 Denver Strong , R. J. Cava

A series of new Cr$_{5+x}$Mo$_{35-x}$W$_{12}$Re$_{35}$Ru$_{13}$C$_{20}$ high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have been synthesized and characterized by x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-14 Guorui Xiao , Wuzhang Yang , Qinqing Zhu , Shijie Song , Guang-han Cao , Zhi Ren

Medium- and high-entropy alloy (MEA and HEA) superconductors have attracted considerable interest since their discovery. This paper reports the superconducting properties of ternary tungsten-containing MEA V4Ti2W for the first time. V4Ti2W…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-11 Kuan Li , Weijie Lin , Ruixin Guo , Shu Guo , Lingyong Zeng , Longfu Li , Peifeng Yu , Kangwang Wang , Chao Zhang , Huixia Luo

We synthesized new REO0.5F0.5BiS2 (RE: rare earth) superconductors with the high-entropy-alloy-type (HEA-type) REO blocking layers. According to the RE concentration and the RE ionic radius, the lattice constant of a systematically changed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 Ryota Sogabe , Yosuke Goto , Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

Recent experiments demonstrate a "robust superconductivity phenomenon" in niobium-based alloys, where the superconducting state remains intact and the critical temperature ($T_c$) is largely unaffected by external pressure well above tens…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Adam D. Smith , Wenjun Ding , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

Since the discovery of high-entropy superconductors in 2014, superconductivity has remained a focal point of interest in medium- and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs). Here, we report a series of (Ti0.33Hf0.33Ta0.33)1-xNbx MEA superconductors…

We report the superconducting properties of new hexagonal Nb$_{10+2x}$Mo$_{35-x}$Ru$_{35-x}$Rh$_{10}$Pd$_{10}$ high-entropy alloys (HEAs) (0 $\leq$ $x$ $\leq$ 5). With increasing $x$, the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-19 Bin Liu , Jifeng Wu , Yanwei Cui , Qinqing Zhu , Guorui Xiao , Siqi Wu , Guanghan Cao , Zhi Ren

X-ray powder diffraction, electrical resistivity, magnetization, and thermodynamic measurements were conducted to investigate the structure and superconducting properties of TiHfNbTaMo, a novel high-entropy alloy possessing a valence…

High-entropy ceramics (HECs) are solid solutions of inorganic compounds with one or more Wyckoff sites shared by equal or near-equal atomic ratios of multi-principal elements. Material design and property tailoring possibilities emerge from…

Superconducting high-entropy alloys (HEAs) present a unique platform for studying the effect of disorder, composition, and crystal structure on superconducting pairing. In this study, we present a comprehensive bulk and microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Sonika Jangid , Pavan Kumar Meena , Niraj P. Atale , Rhea Stewart , Adrian D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

The electronic properties relevant to the superconductivity are reported for bulk Ta-Hf and Ta-Zr body centered cubic alloys, in large part to determine whether their properties are suitable for potential use in superconducting qbits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Tomasz Klimczuk , Szymon Królak , Robert J. Cava

Searching for new superconductors, especially unconventional superconductors, has been studied extensively for decades but remains one of the major outstanding challenges in condensed matter physics. Medium/high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs)…

The present investigation into the superconducting properties of eutectic high-entropy alloy (HEA) Hf-Nb-Sc-Ti-Zr systems reveals an enhanced superconducting critical temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$) in body-centered cubic (bcc) phases compared…

High-entropy-alloy-type (HEA-type) compound superconductors have been drawing much attention as a new class of exotic superconductors with local structural inhomogeneity. NaCl-type (Ag,In,Sn,Pb,Bi)Te is a typical HEA-type superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-22 Md. Riad Kasem , Ryota Ishii , Takayoshi Katase , Osuke Miura , Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

Superconducting high entropy alloys (HEAs) are new members of disordered superconductors. We report the synthesis and investigation of a new superconducting high entropy alloy Mo$_{0.11}$W$_{0.11}$V$_{0.11}$Re$_{0.34}$B$_{0.33}$ (MWVRB). It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Kapil Motla , Arushi , Pavan K. Meena , R. P. Singh