Pressure-driven dome-shaped superconductivity and electronic structural evolution in tungsten ditelluride

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pan, Xing Chen ^a   Chen, Xuliang ^a,b,c   Liu, Huimei ^a   Feng, Yanqing ^a   Wei, Zhongxia ^a   Zhou, Yonghui ^a,c   Chi, Zhenhua ^a,b,c   Pi, Li ^a,b   Yen, Fei ^c   Song, Fengqi ^a   Wan, Xiangang ^a   Yang, Zhaorong ^a,b,c   Wang, Baigeng ^a   Wang, Guanghou ^a   Zhang, Yuheng ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSITION ELEMENT; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE; TUNGSTEN DITELLURIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONSTANT; CRITICAL STATE; ELECTRON DENSITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE EFFECT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPERBARISM; HYPOBARISM; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84937855453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8805     Document Type: Article

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