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Volume 99, Number 2, July 2012
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Article Number | 27002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/27002 | |
Published online | 17 July 2012 |
Superconductivity in a PbFCl-type pnictide: NbSiAs
1 Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology - 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
2 Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology - 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
Received: 4 April 2012
Accepted: 20 June 2012
We report a new superconductor, NbSiAs, with a PbFCl-type structure, which exhibits bulk superconductivity with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 8.2 K and a shielding volume fraction of 40 vol%. Isothermal magnetization and heat capacity measurements indicate NbSiAs is a BCS-like type II superconductor with a normalized specific heat jump value (Cel/γTc) of ∼1.95. Strongly hybridized bonds between Nb 4d and Si 3p orbitals enhance the Debye temperature, which is favorable for the emergence of superconductivity.
PACS: 74.10.+v – Occurrence, potential candidates / 74.25.-q – Properties of superconductors / 74.25.Kc – Phonons
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