Suppression of the superconducting transition of RFeAsO1-xFx (R=Tb, Dy, and Ho)

Jennifer A. Rodgers; George B. S. Penny; Andrea Marcinkova; Jan-Willem G. Bos; Dmitry A. Sokolov; Anna Kusmartseva; Andrew D. Huxley; J. Paul Attfield

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.052508

Suppression of the superconducting transition of RFeAsO1-xFx (R=Tb, Dy, and Ho)

Jennifer A. Rodgers, George B. S. Penny, Andrea Marcinkova, Jan-Willem G. Bos, Dmitry A. Sokolov, Anna Kusmartseva, Andrew D. Huxley, J. Paul Attfield^*

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Abstract

A suppression of superconductivity in the late rare-earth RFeAsO1-xFx materials is reported. The maximum critical temperature (T-c) decreases from 51 K for R=Tb to 36 K for HoFeAsO0.9F0.1, which has been synthesized under 10 GPa pressure. This suppression is driven by a decrease in the Fe-As-Fe angle below an optimum value of 110.6 degrees, as the angle decreases linearly with unit-cell volume (V) across the RFeAsO1-xFx series. A crossover in electronic structure around this optimum geometry is evidenced by a change in sign of the compositional dT(c)/dV, from negative values for previously reported large R materials to positive for HoFeAsO0.9F0.1.

Original language	English
Article number	052508
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Volume	80
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.052508
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009

Keywords

dysprosium compounds
electronic structure
Fermi level
high-pressure effects
holmium compounds
iron compounds
stoichiometry
superconducting transition temperature
superconducting transitions
terbium compounds
LAYERED QUATERNARY COMPOUND
43 K

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Suppression of the superconducting transition of RFeAsO1-xFx (R=Tb, Dy, and Ho)

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