Journal
FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-017-0726-2
Keywords
2D superconductivity; effect of intercalation; transition-metal dichalcogenides; thermodynamic properties
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- Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
- Czestochowa University of Technology-MSK CzestMAN [POIG.02.03.00-00-028/08, POIG.02.03.00-00-110/13]
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We theoretically investigate the possibility of achieving a superconducting state in transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers through intercalation, a process previously and widely used to achieve metallization and superconducting states in novel superconductors. For the Ca-intercalated bilayers MoS2 and WS2, we find that the superconducting state is characterized by an electron-phonon coupling constant larger than 1.0 and a superconducting critical temperature of 13.3 and 9.3 K, respectively. These results are superior to other predicted or experimentally observed two-dimensional conventional superconductors and suggest that the investigated materials may be good candidates for nanoscale superconductors. More interestingly, we proved that the obtained thermodynamic properties go beyond the predictions of the mean-field Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer approximation and that the calculations conducted within the framework of the strong-coupling Eliashberg theory should be treated as those that yield quantitative results.
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