Enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature of FeSe by intercalation of a molecular spacer layer

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-19

  Burrard Lucas, Matthew ^a   Free, David G ^a   Sedlmaier, Stefan J ^a   Wright, Jack D ^a   Cassidy, Simon J ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^a,b   Corkett, Alex J ^a   Lancaster, Tom ^c   Baker, Peter J ^d   Blundell, Stephen J ^a   Clarke, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IBARAKI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERCALATION; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; LITHIUM; METAL IONS; METALS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; MOLECULAR INTERCALATION; MOLECULAR SPACERS; MUON SPIN ROTATION; PEROVSKITE TYPE OXIDES; SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC ROUTES;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871289322     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3464     Document Type: Article

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