S-Shaped Suppression of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Cu-Intercalated NbSe 2

Luo, Huixia; Strychalska-Nowak, Judyta; Li, Jun; Tao, Jing; Klimczuk, Tomasz; Cava, Robert J.

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00655

Title: S-Shaped Suppression of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Cu-Intercalated NbSe ₂

Journal Article · Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00655· OSTI ID:1412646

^[1]; Strychalska-Nowak, Judyta ^[2]; Li, Jun ^[3]; Tao, Jing ^[3]; Klimczuk, Tomasz ^[2]; Cava, Robert J. ^[4]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
Gdansk Univ. of Technology (Poland). Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

2H-NbSe₂ is the prototype and most frequently studied of the well-known transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) superconductors. As 2H-NbSe₂ is widely acknowledged as a conventional superconductor, its transition temperature to the superconducting state (T_c) is 7.3 K, a T_c that is substantially higher than those seen for the majority of TMDCs, where Tc values between 2 and 4 K are the norm. We report the intercalation of Cu into 2H-NbSe₂ to make Cu_xNbSe₂. As is typically found when chemically altering an optimal superconductor, T_c decreases with an increase in x, but the way that Tc is suppressed in this case is unusual: an S-shaped character is observed, with an inflection point near x = 0.03 and, at higher x values, a leveling off of the T_c near 3 K, down to the usual value for a layered TMDC. Electronic characterization reveals corresponding S-like behavior for many of the parameters of the materials that influence T_c. In order to illustrate its character, the superconducting phase diagram for Cu_xNbSe₂ is contrasted with those of FexNbSe₂ and NbSe_2–xS_x.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; FG02-98ER45706

OSTI ID:: 1412646

Report Number(s):: BNL-114323-2017-JA; R&D Project: MA015MACA; KC0201010; TRN: US1800315

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 8; ISSN 0897-4756

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 30 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (41)

The structure of the incommensurate superlattices of 2H–TaSe ₂ Withers, R. L.; Bursill, L. A. Philosophical Magazine B, Vol. 43, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/01418638108222165	journal	April 1981
Visualizing the charge density wave transition in $2 H$ - ${NbSe}_{2}$ in real space Arguello, C. J.; Chockalingam, S. P.; Rosenthal, E. P. Physical Review B, Vol. 89, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235115	journal	June 2014
Quantum phase transition from triangular to stripe charge order in NbSe2 Soumyanarayanan, A.; Yee, M. M.; He, Y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 110, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211387110	journal	January 2013
Superconductivity Matthias, B. T.; Geballe, T. H.; Compton, V. B. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 35, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.35.1	journal	January 1963
Layer structure superconductor Revolinsky, E.; Lautenschlager, E. P.; Armitage, C. H. Solid State Communications, Vol. 1, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(63)90358-2	journal	August 1963
Charge-Density Waves in Metallic, Layered, Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Wilson, J. A.; Di Salvo, F. J.; Mahajan, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.882	journal	April 1974
Heat Conduction in the Vortex State of ${N b S e}_{2}$ : Evidence for Multiband Superconductivity Boaknin, Etienne; Tanatar, M. A.; Paglione, Johnpierre Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.117003	journal	March 2003
Pressure Induced Effects on the Fermi Surface of Superconducting $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Suderow, H.; Tissen, V. G.; Brison, J. P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.117006	journal	September 2005
X-ray scattering studies of 2 H -NbSe ₂ , a superconductor and charge density wave material, under high external magnetic fields Du, C-H; Lin, W. J.; Su, Y. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 12, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/12/25/302	journal	June 2000
Strongly enhanced charge-density-wave order in monolayer NbSe₂ Xi, Xiaoxiang; Zhao, Liang; Wang, Zefang Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 9, p. 765-769 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.143	journal	July 2015
Coherent long-range magnetic bound states in a superconductor Ménard, Gerbold C.; Guissart, Sébastien; Brun, Christophe Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3508	journal	October 2015
Fermi-surface nesting and the origin of the charge-density wave in $Nb {Se}_{2}$ Johannes, M.; Mazin, I.; Howells, C. Physical Review B, Vol. 73, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.205102	journal	May 2006
Quantum oscillations in the mixed state of the type II superconductor 2H-NbSe ₂ Corcoran, R.; Meeson, P.; Onuki, Y. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 6, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/6/24/010	journal	June 1994
d-Wave pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors—fundamental implications and potential applications Tsuei, C. C.; Kirtley, J. R. Physica C: Superconductivity, Vol. 367, Issue 1-4 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4534(01)00976-5	journal	February 2002
The origin of multiple superconducting gaps in MgB2 Souma, S.; Machida, Y.; Sato, T. Nature, Vol. 423, Issue 6935 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01619	journal	May 2003
Modeling MgB2 two-gap superconductivity Örd, T.; Kristoffel, N. Physica C: Superconductivity, Vol. 370, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4534(01)01280-1	journal	April 2002
MgB ₂ two-gap superconductivity with intra- and interband couplings Kristoffel, N.; Örd, T.; Rägo, K. Europhysics Letters (EPL), Vol. 61, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00256-8	journal	January 2003
Experimental evidence for a two-gap structure of superconducting $Nb {Se}_{2}$ : A specific-heat study in external magnetic fields Huang, C. L.; Lin, J. -Y.; Chang, Y. T. Physical Review B, Vol. 76, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.212504	journal	December 2007
Experimental evidence for a two-band superconducting state of ${NbSe}_{2}$ single crystals Zehetmayer, M.; Weber, H. W. Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014524	journal	July 2010
Penetration Depth Study of Superconducting Gap Structure of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Fletcher, J. D.; Carrington, A.; Diener, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.057003	journal	February 2007
STM study of multiband superconductivity in NbSe2 using a superconducting tip Rodrigo, J. G.; Vieira, S. Physica C: Superconductivity, Vol. 404, Issue 1-4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2003.10.030	journal	May 2004
Intrinsic atomic-scale modulations of the superconducting gap of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Guillamon, I.; Suderow, H.; Guinea, F. Physical Review B, Vol. 77, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134505	journal	April 2008
Signatures of multigap superconductivity in tunneling spectroscopy Noat, Y.; Cren, T.; Debontridder, F. Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014531	journal	July 2010
Gaps and kinks in the electronic structure of the superconductor $2 H$ -NbSe $_{2}$ from angle-resolved photoemission at 1 K Rahn, D. J.; Hellmann, S.; Kalläne, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.224532	journal	June 2012
Fermi Surface Sheet-Dependent Superconductivity in 2H-NbSe2 Yokoya, T. Science, Vol. 294, Issue 5551 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1065068	journal	December 2001
Charge-density-wave mechanism in the $2 H - {NbSe}_{2}$ family: Angle-resolved photoemission studies Tonjes, W. C.; Greanya, V. A.; Liu, Rong Physical Review B, Vol. 63, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.235101	journal	May 2001
Ising pairing in superconducting NbSe2 atomic layers Xi, Xiaoxiang; Wang, Zefang; Zhao, Weiwei Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3538	journal	November 2015
Photoemission studies of Cu intercalated NbSe2 Koh, Y. Y.; Kim, Y. K.; Jung, W. S. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Vol. 72, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2010.10.067	journal	May 2011
Intercalation of the niobium-diselenide layer structure by first-row transition metals Voorhoeve, J. M.; van den Berg, Née; Robbins, M. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 1, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4596(70)90003-4	journal	January 1970
Transition Temperature of Strong-Coupled Superconductors McMillan, W. L. Physical Review, Vol. 167, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.167.331	journal	March 1968
Infrared properties of the semimetal Ti ${Se}_{2}$ Wilson, J. A.; Barker, A. S.; Salvo, F. J. Di Physical Review B, Vol. 18, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.18.2866	journal	September 1978
Excitonic Phases Kohn, W. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.439	journal	August 1967
Temperature and Purity Dependence of the Superconducting Critical Field, $H_{c 2}$ . III. Electron Spin and Spin-Orbit Effects Werthamer, N. R.; Helfand, E.; Hohenberg, P. C. Physical Review, Vol. 147, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.147.295	journal	July 1966
Differences in Chemical Doping Matter: Superconductivity in Ti _{1– x} Ta _x Se ₂ but Not in Ti _{1– x} Nb _x Se ₂ Luo, Huixia; Xie, Weiwei; Tao, Jing Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00288	journal	February 2016
Superconductivity in CaBi ₂ Winiarski, M. J.; Wiendlocha, B.; Gołąb, S. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 31 https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP02856J	journal	January 2016
Upper critical field, lower critical field and critical current density of FeTe _0.60 Se _0.40 single crystals Yadav, C. S.; Paulose, P. L. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/103046	journal	October 2009
Charge-order-maximized momentum-dependent superconductivity Kiss, T.; Yokoya, T.; Chainani, A. Nature Physics, Vol. 3, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys699	journal	August 2007
Charge density wave and superconductivity in 2H- and 4H-NbSe2: A revisit Naik, I.; Rastogi, A. K. Pramana, Vol. 76, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-011-0028-0	journal	June 2011
Characterization of collective ground states in single-layer NbSe2 Ugeda, Miguel M.; Bradley, Aaron J.; Zhang, Yi Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3527	journal	November 2015
Effect of $3 d$ Impurities on the Superconducting Transition Temperature of the Layered Compound Nb ${Se}_{2}$ Hauser, J. J.; Robbins, M.; DiSalvo, F. J. Physical Review B, Vol. 8, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.8.1038	journal	August 1973
Stoichiometry, structure, and physical properties of niobium disulfide Fisher, Wayne G.; Sienko, M. J. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 19, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/ic50203a009	journal	January 1980

Cited By (8)

NbSeTe—a new layered transition metal dichalcogenide superconductor Yan, Dong; Wang, Shu; Lin, Yishi Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 32, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ab46d0	journal	October 2019
Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in defect-induced NbSe2 single crystals Pervin, Rukshana; Krishnan, Manikandan; Sonachalam, Arumugam Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 54, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03757-5	journal	June 2019
Ion intercalation engineering of electronic properties of two-dimensional crystals of $2 H − {TaSe}_{2}$ Wu, Yueshen; Xing, Hui; Lian, Chao-Sheng Physical Review Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.3.104003	journal	October 2019
Study of transport properties in Se-deficient and Fe-intercalated NbSe2 single crystals: experiment and theory Pervin, Rukshana; Ghosh, Abyay; Ghosh, Haranath Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 55, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-04002-9	journal	September 2019
Enhancement of superconducting properties and flux pinning mechanism on Cr0.0005NbSe2 single crystal under Hydrostatic pressure Arumugam, S.; Krishnan, Manikandan; Ishigaki, Kent Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36672-x	journal	January 2019
Unconventional scaling of the superfluid density with the critical temperature in transition metal dichalcogenides von Rohr, F. O.; Orain, J. -C.; Khasanov, R. Science Advances, Vol. 5, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav8465	journal	November 2019
Unconventional scaling of the superfluid density with the critical temperature in transition metal dichalcogenides Von Rohr, F. O.; Orain, J-C; Khasanov, R. American Association for the Advancement of Science https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-178428	text	January 2019
NbSeTe -A New Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Superconductor Yan, Dong; Wang, Shu; Lin, Yishi arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.02243	text	January 2019

Similar Records

Thermodynamic properties of the layered superconductor 2H-NbSe/sub 2/

Journal Article · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1977 · J. Low Temp. Phys.; (United States) · OSTI ID:1412646

Kobayashi, N; Noto, K; Muto, Y

Quasiparticle density of states of 2H-NbSe{sub 2} single crystals revealed by low-temperature specific heat measurements according to a two-component model.

Journal Article · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · Chinese Phys. B · OSTI ID:1412646

Yan, J; Shan, L; Wang, Y; +2 more

Nano-engineering via intercalation: Layer-by-layer interstratification of high-{Tc} superconducting and superionic materials, Ag{sub x}I{sub y}Bi{sub 2}Sr{sub 2}Ca{sub n{minus}1}Cu{sub n}O{sub 2n+4} (n = 1, 2, and 3)

Book · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996 · OSTI ID:1412646

Choy, J H; Kim, Y I; Park, N G; +1 more

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Title: S-Shaped Suppression of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Cu-Intercalated NbSe 2

Citation Formats

References (41)

Cited By (8)

Similar Records

Related Subjects

Title: S-Shaped Suppression of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Cu-Intercalated NbSe ₂