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Hall effect of quasi-hole gas in organic single-crystal transistors
Hall effect is detected in organic field-effect transistors, using
appropriately shaped rubrene (C42H28) single crystals. It turned out that
inverse Hall coefficient, having a positive sign, is close to the amount of
electric-field induced charge upon the hole accumulation. The presence of the
normal Hall effect means that the electromagnetic character of the surface
charge is not of hopping carriers but resembles that of a two-dimensional
hole-gas system
Superconductivity in metal rich Li-Pd-B ternary Boride
8K superconductivity was observed in the metal rich Li-Pd-B ternary system.
Structural, microstructural, electrical and magnetic investigations for various
compositions proved that Li2Pd3B compound, which has a cubic structure composed
of distorted Pd6B octahedrons, is responsible for the superconductivity. This
is the first observation of superconductivity in metal rich ternary borides
containing alkaline metal and Pd as a late transition metal. The compound
prepared by arc melting has high density, is stable in the air and has an upper
critical field, Hc2(0), of 6T.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figur
Temperature dependence of iron local magnetic moment in phase-separated superconducting chalcogenide
We have studied local magnetic moment and electronic phase separation in
superconducting KFeSe by x-ray emission and absorption
spectroscopy. Detailed temperature dependent measurements at the Fe K-edge have
revealed coexisting electronic phases and their correlation with the transport
properties. By cooling down, the local magnetic moment of Fe shows a sharp drop
across the superconducting transition temperature (T) and the coexisting
phases exchange spectral weights with the low spin state gaining intensity at
the expense of the higher spin state. After annealing the sample across the
iron-vacancy order temperature, the system does not recover the initial state
and the spectral weight anomaly at T as well as superconductivity
disappear. The results clearly underline that the coexistence of the low spin
and high spin phases and the transitions between them provide unusual magnetic
fluctuations and have a fundamental role in the superconducting mechanism of
electronically inhomogeneous KFeSe system.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Superconducting Properties of MgB2 Bulk Materials Prepared by High Pressure Sintering
High-density bulk materials of a newly discovered 40K intermetallic MgB2
superconductor were prepared by high pressure sintering. Superconducting
transition with the onset temperature of 39K was confirmed by both magnetic and
resistive measurements. Magnetization versus field (M-H) curve shows the
behavior of a typical Type II superconductor and the lower critical field
Hc1(0) estimated from M-H curve is 0.032T. The bulk sample shows good
connection between grains and critical current density Jc estimated from the
magnetization hysteresis using sample size was 2x104A/cm2 at 20K and 1T. Upper
critical field Hc2(0) determined by extrapolating the onset of resistive
transition and assuming a dirty limit is 18T.Comment: 3Pages PD
Quantum conductance-temperature phase diagram of granular superconductor KxFe2-ySe2
It is now well established that the microstructure of Fe-based chalcogenide KxFe2−ySe2 consists of, at least, a minor (~15 percent), nano-sized, superconducting KsFe2Se2 phase and a major (~85 percent) insulating antiferromagnetic K2Fe4Se5 matrix. Other intercalated A1−xFe2−ySe2 (A = Li, Na, Ba, Sr, Ca, Yb, Eu, ammonia, amide, pyridine, ethylenediamine etc.) manifest a similar microstructure. On subjecting each of these systems to a varying control parameter (e.g. heat treatment, concentration x,y, or pressure p), one obtains an exotic normal-state and superconducting phase diagram. With the objective of rationalizing the properties of such a diagram, we envisage a system consisting of nanosized superconducting granules which are embedded within an insulating continuum. Then, based on the standard granular superconductor model, an induced variation in size, distribution, separation and Fe-content of the superconducting granules can be expressed in terms of model parameters (e.g. tunneling conductance, g, Coulomb charging energy, Ec, superconducting gap of single granule, Δ, and Josephson energy J = πΔg/2). We show, with illustration from experiments, that this granular scenario explains satisfactorily the evolution of normal-state and superconducting properties (best visualized on a g - E c/∆ T phase diagram) of AxFe2−ySe2 when any of x, y, p, or heat treatment is varied
Evolution of superconductivity in LaO1-xFxBiS2 prepared by high pressure technique
Novel BiS2-based superconductors LaO1-xFxBiS2 prepared by the high pressure
synthesis technique were systematically studied. It was found that the high
pressure annealing strongly the lattice as compared to the LaO1-xFxBiS2 samples
prepared by conventional solid state reaction at ambient pressure. Bulk
superconductivity was observed within a wide F-concentration range of x = 0.2 ~
0.7. On the basis of those results, we have established a phase diagram of
LaO1-xFxBiS2.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
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