Journal
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac6319
Keywords
superconductivity; FeSe-based superconductor; ion exchange; nearly vacancy-free precursor
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11888101]
- National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2017YFA0303001, 2016YFA0300201, 2019YFA0704901]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB25000000]
- Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies [AHY160000]
- Science Challenge Project of China [TZ2016004]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS, China [QYZDYSSW-SLH021]
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In this study, a hybrid iron-based superconductor Li0.21Se0.05(EG)(0.26)FeSe was synthesized using a solvothermal ion-exchange technique, where a nearly vacancy-free precursor (TBA)(0.3)FeSe was used as the matrix. The Fe vacancies concentration in the FeSe plane was effectively reduced, and the bulk superconductivity with a transition temperature of 30 K was confirmed.
The superconductivity of the FeSe-based superconductor is extremely sensitive to Fe vacancies in the FeSe plane. In order to reduce the formation of Fe vacancies in the FeSe plane, various low-temperature methods are developed. However, it is still complex and time consuming to control the Fe vacancies concentration. Here, a hybrid iron-based superconductor, Li0.21Se0.05(EG)(0.26)FeSe (EG: ethylene glycol, C2H6O2), is synthesized by a solvothermal ion-exchange technique using a nearly vacancy-free precursor of (TBA)(0.3)FeSe as the matrix. Bulk superconductivity with transition temperature (T (c)) of 30 K is confirmed by the characterization with the magnetic susceptibility and resistivity measurements. Compared with the pristine FeSe single crystal, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results show a decrease of the Fe valence, indicating that electron doping to FeSe plane accounts for the increase of the T (c). Our result suggests that (TBA)(0.3)FeSe, a nearly vacancy-free precursor with a large distance between the adjacent FeSe planes, is a good template candidate for the synthesis of other hybrid iron-based superconductors using the ion exchange technique.
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