Session A35: Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors I: Synthesis and New Materials
8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Monday, March 16, 2009
Room: 405
Sponsoring Unit:
DMP
Chair: David Larbelestier, Florida State University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.MAR.A35.5
Abstract: A35.00005 : New ternary phosphide superconductors with the ThCr2Si2 parent structure
8:48 AM–9:00 AM
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Authors:
Nicholas Berry
(University of California Irvine)
Cigdem Capan
(University of California Irvine)
Gabriel Seyfarth
(Universit\'e de Montr\'eal, University of California Irvine)
Zachary Fisk
(University of California Irvine)
Compounds with the ThCr2Si2 structure have been studied extensively for over 20 years for their interesting magnetic, superconducting, and heavy fermion properties. We have grown single crystals of new ternary phosphides in this structure in the form of AX2P2, with A being an Alkaline Earth Metal and X a transition metal. We have characterized the properties of these new materials with X-ray, heat capacity, resistivity, and susceptibility measurements and have discovered new superconductors.
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