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Superconductivity induced by oxygen deficiency in Sr-doped LaOFeAs
We synthesized Sr-doped sample with single phase,
and systematically studied the effect of oxygen deficiency in the Sr-doped
LaOFeAs system. It is found that substitution of Sr for La indeed induces the
hole carrier evidenced by positive thermoelectric power (TEP), but no bulk
superconductivity is observed. The superconductivity can be realized by
annealing the as-grown sample in vacuum to produce the oxygen deficiency. With
increasing the oxygen deficiency, the superconducting transition temperature
() increases and maximum reaches about 26 K the same as that in
La(O,F)FeAs. TEP dramatically changes from positive to negative in the
nonsuperconducting as-grown sample to the superconducting samples with oxygen
deficiency. While is always negative for all samples (even for Sr-doped
as grown sample). It suggests that the is
still electron-type superconductor.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Transport properties and superconductivity in (M=La and K) with double FeAs layers
We synthesized the samples (M=La and K) with
-type structure. These samples were systematically characterized by
resistivity, thermoelectic power (TEP) and Hall coefficient ().
shows an anomaly in resistivity at about 140 K. Substitution of La
for Ba leads to a shift of the anomaly to low temperature, but no
superconducting transition is observed. Potassium doping leads to suppression
of the anomaly in resistivity and induces superconductivity at 38 K as reported
by Rotter et al.\cite{rotter}. The Hall coefficient and TEP measurements
indicate that the TEP is negative for and La-doped ,
indicating n-type carrier; while potassium doping leads to change of the sign
in and TEP. It definitely indicates p-type carrier in superconducting
with double FeAs layers, being in contrast to the case of
with single FeAs layer. A similar superconductivity is also
observed in the sample with nominal composition .Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Thermodynamic properties of Ba1-xMxFe2As2 (M = La and K)
The specific heat of BaFeAs single crystal, electron-doped
BaLaFeAs and hole-doped BaKFeAs
polycrystals were measured. For undoped BaFeAs single crystal, a very
sharp specific heat peak was observed at 136 K. This is attributed to the
structural and antiferromagnetic transitions occurring at the same temperature.
of the electron-doped non-superconducting
BaLaFeAs also shows a small peak at 120 K, indicating a
similar but weaker structural/antiferromagnetic transition. For the hole-doped
superconducting BaKFeAs, a clear peak of was
observed at = 36 K, which is the highest peak seen at superconducting
transition for iron-based high- superconductors so far. The electronic
specific heat coefficient and Debye temperature of these
compounds were obtained from the low temperature data
A general model for collaboration networks
In this paper, we propose a general model for collaboration networks.
Depending on a single free parameter "{\bf preferential exponent}", this model
interpolates between networks with a scale-free and an exponential degree
distribution. The degree distribution in the present networks can be roughly
classified into four patterns, all of which are observed in empirical data. And
this model exhibits small-world effect, which means the corresponding networks
are of very short average distance and highly large clustering coefficient.
More interesting, we find a peak distribution of act-size from empirical data
which has not been emphasized before of some collaboration networks. Our model
can produce the peak act-size distribution naturally that agrees with the
empirical data well.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure
Angular dependence of resistivity in the superconducting state of NdFeAsOF single crystals
We report the results of angle dependent resistivity of
NdFeAsOF single crystals in the superconducting state. By
doing the scaling of resistivity within the frame of the anisotropic
Ginzburg-Landau theory, it is found that the angle dependent resistivity
measured under different magnetic fields at a certain temperature can be
collapsed onto one curve. As a scaling parameter, the anisotropy can
be determined for different temperatures. It is found that
increases slowly with decreasing temperature, varying from 5.48
at T=50 K to 6.24 at T=44 K. This temperature dependence can be
understood within the picture of multi-band superconductivity.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Alignment of Carbon Nanotube Additives for Improved Performance of Magnesium Diboride Superconductors
The rapid progress on MgB2 superconductor since its discovery[1] has made
this material a strong competitor to low and high temperature superconductors
(HTS) for applications with a great potential to catch the niche market such as
in magnetic resonant imaging (MRI). Thanks to the lack of weak links and the
two-gap superconductivity of MgB2 [2,3] a number of additives have been
successfully used to enhance the critical current density, Jc and the upper
critical field, Hc2.[4-12] Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have unusually electrical,
mechanical and thermal properties[13-16] and hence is an ideal component to
fabricate composites for improving their performance. To take advantages of the
extraordinary properties of CNTs it is important to align CNTs in the
composites. Here we report a method of alignment of CNTs in the CNT/MgB2
superconductor composite wires through a readily scalable drawing technique.
The aligned CNT doped MgB2 wires show an enhancement in magnetic Jc(H) by more
than an order of magnitude in high magnetic fields, compared to the undoped
ones. The CNTs have also significantly enhanced the heat transfer and
dissipation. CNTs have been used mainly in structural materials, but here the
advantage of their use in functional composites is shown and this has wider
ramifications for other functional materials.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures. to be published in Advanced Material
Growth and characterization of A_{1-x}K_xFe_2As_2 (A = Ba, Sr) single crystals with x=0 - 0.4
Single crystals of AKFeAs (A=Ba, Sr) with high quality
have been grown successfully by FeAs self-flux method. The samples have sizes
up to 4 mm with flat and shiny surfaces. The X-ray diffraction patterns suggest
that they have high crystalline quality and c-axis orientation. The
non-superconducting crystals show a spin-density-wave (SDW) instability at
about 173 K and 135 K for Sr-based and Ba-based compound, respectively. After
doping K as the hole dopant into the BaFeAs system, the SDW transition
is smeared, and superconducting samples with the compound of
BaKFeAs (0 0.4) are obtained. The
superconductors characterized by AC susceptibility and resistivity measurements
exhibit very sharp superconducting transition at about 36 K, 32 K, 27 K and 23
K for x= 0.40,0.28,0.25 and 0.23, respectively.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. This paper together with new data are
modified into a new pape
Local coexpression domains in the genome of rice show no microsynteny with Arabidopsis domains
Chromosomal coexpression domains are found in a number of different genomes under various developmental conditions. The size of these domains and the number of genes they contain vary. Here, we define local coexpression domains as adjacent genes where all possible pair-wise correlations of expression data are higher than 0.7. In rice, such local coexpression domains range from predominantly two genes, up to 4, and make up ∼5% of the genomic neighboring genes, when examining different expression platforms from the public domain. The genes in local coexpression domains do not fall in the same ontology category significantly more than neighboring genes that are not coexpressed. Duplication, orientation or the distance between the genes does not solely explain coexpression. The regulation of coexpression is therefore thought to be regulated at the level of chromatin structure. The characteristics of the local coexpression domains in rice are strikingly similar to such domains in the Arabidopsis genome. Yet, no microsynteny between local coexpression domains in Arabidopsis and rice could be identified. Although the rice genome is not yet as extensively annotated as the Arabidopsis genome, the lack of conservation of local coexpression domains may indicate that such domains have not played a major role in the evolution of genome structure or in genome conservation
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