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Structure of the oxygen-annealed chalcogenide superconductor Fe 1.08Te 0.55Se 0.45O x

  • Hefei Hu
  • , Jian Min Zuo
  • , Mao Zheng
  • , James N. Eckstein
  • , Wan Kyu Park
  • , Laura H. Greene
  • , Jinsheng Wen
  • , Zhijun Xu
  • , Zhiwei Lin
  • , Qiang Li
  • , Genda Gu
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department

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Abstract

The as-grown single crystal Fe 1.08Te 0.55Se 0.45 with the tetragonal PbO-type structure is nonsuperconducting owing to the excess Fe. Superconductivity is induced after oxygen annealing with an onset and zero resistance transition temperature around 14.5 K and 11.5 K, respectively. The oxygen doping is evidenced by electron energy loss spectroscopy and accompanied by improved homogeneity in the remaining PbO-type phase, as well as an increase in the L 3/L 2 intensity ratio of the Fe-L 2,3 edge, indicating an increase in Fe valence. Local phase transformation from the tetragonal PbO-type phase to the hexagonal NiAs-type phase is also observed after oxygen annealing.

Original languageEnglish
Article number064504
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume85
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 6 2012

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