Discovery of a superhard iron tetraboride superconductor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Gou, Huiyang ^a,b   Dubrovinskaia, Natalia ^b   Bykova, Elena ^a,b   Tsirlin, Alexander A ^c,d   Kasinathan, Deepa ^c   Schnelle, Walter ^c   Richter, Asta ^e   Merlini, Marco ^f   Hanfland, Michael ^g   Abakumov, Artem M ^h   Batuk, Dmitry ^h   Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf ^h   Nakajima, Yoichi ^a   Kolmogorov, Aleksey N ⁱ   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^e Technische Hochschule Wildau   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

ⁱ BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; FE-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; HEAT CAPACITY MEASUREMENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPE EFFECT; NANO-INDENTATION HARDNESS; SPACE GROUPS; SUPERCONDUCTING CRITICAL TEMPERATURES;

BORIDES; IRON; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84885343588     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.157002     Document Type: Article

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