Goyal, Reena and Gupta, Govind and Srivastava, A. K. and Awana, V. P. S. (2016) Superconductivity at 5.5 K in Nb2PdSe5 Compound. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 29 (11). 2705 -2710. ISSN 1557-1939

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Abstract

We report superconductivity in as-synthesized Nb2PdSe5, which is similar to a recently discovered Nb2PdS5 compound having very high upper critical field, clearly above the Pauli paramagnetic limit Zhang et al. (Sci. Rep. 3:1446, 2013). A bulk polycrystalline Nb2PdSe5 sample is synthesized by a solid-state reaction route in a phase-pure structure. The structural characterization has been done by X-ray diffraction, followed by Rietveld refinements, which revealed that the Nb2PdSe5 sample is crystallized in a monoclinic structure within the space group C2/m. Structural analysis revealed the formation of sharing of one-dimensional PdSe2 chains. Electrical and magnetic measurements confirmed the superconductivity in Nb2PdSe5 compound at 5.5 K. Detailed magneto-resistance results exhibited the value of upper critical field to be around 8.2 T. The estimated H (c2)(0) is within the Pauli paramagnetic limit, which is unlike the Nb2PdS5.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: PdSe2-based superconductor Structural analysis Transport properties
Subjects: Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
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Depositing User: Dr. Rajpal Walke
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2018 10:53
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2018 10:53
URI: http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/2382

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