Role of chalcogen vapor annealing in inducing bulk superconductivity in Fe1+yTe1-xSex [How does annealing in chalcogen vapor induce superconductivity in Fe1+yTe-xSex?]

Lin, Wenzhi; Ganesh, P.; Gianfrancesco, Anthony; Wang, Jun; Berlijn, Tom; Maier, Thomas A.; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Sales, Brian C.; Pan, Minghu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.060513

Title: Role of chalcogen vapor annealing in inducing bulk superconductivity in Fe_1+yTe_1-xSe_x [How does annealing in chalcogen vapor induce superconductivity in Fe_1+yTe_-xSe_x?]

Journal Article · Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.060513· OSTI ID:1185819

Lin, Wenzhi ^[1]; Ganesh, P. ^[1]; Gianfrancesco, Anthony ^[2]; Wang, Jun ^[1]; Berlijn, Tom ^[3]; Maier, Thomas A. ^[3]; Kalinin, Sergei V. ^[1]; Sales, Brian C. ^[4]; Pan, Minghu ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). UT/ORNL Bredesen Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) and Computer Science and Mathematics Div.
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division

Recent investigations have shown that Fe_1+yTe_1-xSe_x can be made superconducting by annealing it in Se and O vapors. The current lore is that these chalcogen vapors induce superconductivity by removing the magnetic excess Fe atoms. To investigate this phenomenon we performed a combination of magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and transport measurements together with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations on Fe_1+yTe_1-xSe_x treated with Te vapor. We conclude that the main role of the Te vapor is to quench the magnetic moments of the excess Fe atoms by forming FeTe_m (m ≥ 1) complexes. We show that the remaining FeTe_m complexes are still damaging to the superconductivity and therefore that their removal potentially could further improve superconductive properties in these compounds.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1185819

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1180738

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 6; ISSN 1098-0121

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