This review shows the highlights of a 4-year-long research project supported by the
Japanese Government to explore new superconducting materials and relevant functional …

The discovery of high-T c superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors pioneered by
Kamihara et al (2008 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 3296–7) has triggered worldwide research …

In this paper we report basic properties of iron-based superconductors and review the latest
achievements in the fabrication of conductors based on these materials. We compare state …

In 2012, a new layered superconductor where BiS 2 layer is the superconducting layer was
discovered. So far, seven types of BiS 2-based superconductors and two related …

Phase diagrams play a primary role in the understanding of materials properties. For iron-
based superconductors (Fe-SC), the correct definition of their phase diagrams is crucial …

A novel synthesis technique, called the high-pressure diffusion control (HPDC) method, was
developed in this study. The method combined the high-pressure synthesis using a cubic …

Thin films of Fe-based superconductors (FBS) have been utilized in a plethora of different
experiments for a fundamental understanding of the superconductivity in these materials, as …

The discovery of iron-based superconductors (FBS) and their superconducting properties
has generated huge research interest and provided a very rich physics high T c family for …

The 1111-type iron-based superconductor Ln FeAsO1-xFx (Ln stands for lanthanide) is the
first material with a T c above 50 K, other than cuprate superconductors. Electron do** into …

Since the discovery of Fe-based superconductors, a lot of effort has been devoted to
growing single crystals and epitaxial thin films of them for fundamental studies and applied …