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PHYSICA C-SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 549, Issue -, Pages 61-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2018.02.047
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Superconductivity; Fe-chalcogenide; Fe-vacancy; X-ray diffraction; Rietveld refinement; Structural distortion
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- Academia Sinica through its Thematic Research Grant [AS-106-TP-A01]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 107-2633-M-001-001]
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This review summarizes recent advancements in FeSe and related systems. The FeSe and related superconductors are currently receiving considerable attention for the high Tcs observed and for many similar features to the high Tc cuprate superconductors. These similarities suggest that understanding the FeSe based compounds could potentially help our understanding of the cuprates. We shall first review the common features observed in the FeSe-based system. It was found that with a careful control of material synthesizing processes, numerous rich phases have been observed in the FeSe-based system. Detailed studies show that the Fe-vacancy ordered phases found in the FeSe based compounds, which are non-superconducting Mott insulators, are the parent compounds of the superconductors. Superconductivity emerges from the parent phases by disordering the Fe vacancy order, often by a simple annealing treatment. Recent high temperature X-ray diffraction experiments show that the degree of structural distortion associated with the disorder of Fe-vacancy is closely related to volume fraction of the superconductivity observed. These results suggest the strong lattice to spin coupling are important for the occurrence of superconductivity in FeSe based superconductors.
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