The puzzle of high temperature superconductivity in layered iron pnictides and chalcogenides

DC Johnston - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The response of the worldwide scientific community to the discovery in 2008 of
superconductivity at T c= 26 K in the Fe-based compound LaFeAsO1− x F x has been very …

To what extent iron-pnictide new superconductors have been clarified: a progress report

K Ishida, Y Nakai, H Hosono - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2009 - journals.jps.jp
In this review, the authors present a summary of experimental reports on newly discovered
iron-based superconductors as they were known at the end of 2008. At the same time, this …

Superconductivity at 43 K in an iron-based layered compound LaO1-xFxFeAs

H Takahashi, K Igawa, K Arii, Y Kamihara, M Hirano… - nature, 2008 - nature.com
The iron-and nickel-based layered compounds LaOFeP (refs 1, 2) and LaONiP (ref. 3) have
recently been reported to exhibit low-temperature superconducting phases with transition …

Crystallographic phase transition and high-Tc superconductivity in LaFeAsO: F

T Nomura, SW Kim, Y Kamihara… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Undoped LaFeAsO, the parent compound of the newly found high-T c superconductor,
exhibits a sharp decrease in the temperature-dependent resistivity at∼ 160 K. The anomaly …

Superconductivity induced by La do** in SrLaFBiS

X Lin, X Ni, B Chen, X Xu, X Yang, J Dai, Y Li… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Through a combination of x-ray diffraction, electrical transport, magnetic susceptibility, and
heat-capacity measurements, we report the effect of La do** on Sr in the newly discovered …

Local antiferromagnetic correlations in the iron pnictide superconductors and as seen via normal-state susceptibility

R Klingeler, N Leps, I Hellmann, A Popa… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We have studied the interplay of magnetism and superconductivity in LaFeAsO 1− x F x and
Ca (Fe 1− x Co x) 2 As 2. While antiferromagnetic spin-density wave formation is …

Influence of the rare-earth element on the effects of the structural and magnetic phase transitions in CeFeAsO, PrFeAsO and NdFeAsO

MA McGuire, RP Hermann, AS Sefat… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results of transport and magnetic properties and heat capacity measurements on
polycrystalline CeFeAsO, PrFeAsO and NdFeAsO. These materials undergo structural …

Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of superconductors, SmFeAsO1− xFx

Y Kamihara, T Nomura, M Hirano, JE Kim… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A crystallographic and magnetic phase diagram of SmFeAsO 1− x F x is determined as a
function of x in terms of temperature based on electrical transport and magnetization …

Narrow superconducting window in

G Cao, S Jiang, X Lin, C Wang, Y Li, Z Ren, Q Tao… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We have studied Ni-substitution effect in LaFe 1− x Ni x AsO (0≤ x≤ 0.1) by the
measurements of x-ray diffraction, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and heat …

Orbital and spin effects for the upper critical field in As-deficient disordered Fe pnictide superconductors

G Fuchs, SL Drechsler, N Kozlova… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We report upper critical field B c2 (T) data for LaO 0.9 F 0.1 FeAs 1-δ in a wide temperature
and field range up to 60 T. The large slope of B c2≈-5.4 to-6.6 T K-1 near an improved T c≈ …