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Title: Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor

Abstract

High-entropy alloys are made from random mixtures of principal elements on simple lattices, stabilized by a high mixing entropy. The recently discovered body-centered cubic (BCC) Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor appears to display properties of both simple crystalline intermetallics and amorphous materials; e.g., it has a well-defined superconducting transition along with an exceptional robustness against disorder. Here we show that the valence electron count dependence of the superconducting transition temperature in the high-entropy alloy falls between those of analogous simple solid solutions and amorphous materials and test the effect of alloy complexity on the superconductivity. We propose high-entropy alloys as excellent intermediate systems for studying superconductivity as it evolves between crystalline and amorphous materials.

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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Science Centre (Poland)
OSTI Identifier:
1330724
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1372433
Report Number(s):
BNL-113907-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-98CH10886; SC0012704; DEC-2012/07/E/ST3/00584; GBMF-4412
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; High-entropy Alloys; Superconductivity; Disordered Metals

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von Rohr, Fabian, Winiarski, Michał J., Tao, Jing, Klimczuk, Tomasz, and Cava, Robert Joseph. Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1615926113.
von Rohr, Fabian, Winiarski, Michał J., Tao, Jing, Klimczuk, Tomasz, & Cava, Robert Joseph. Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615926113
von Rohr, Fabian, Winiarski, Michał J., Tao, Jing, Klimczuk, Tomasz, and Cava, Robert Joseph. Tue . "Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615926113.
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title = {Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor},
author = {von Rohr, Fabian and Winiarski, Michał J. and Tao, Jing and Klimczuk, Tomasz and Cava, Robert Joseph},
abstractNote = {High-entropy alloys are made from random mixtures of principal elements on simple lattices, stabilized by a high mixing entropy. The recently discovered body-centered cubic (BCC) Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor appears to display properties of both simple crystalline intermetallics and amorphous materials; e.g., it has a well-defined superconducting transition along with an exceptional robustness against disorder. Here we show that the valence electron count dependence of the superconducting transition temperature in the high-entropy alloy falls between those of analogous simple solid solutions and amorphous materials and test the effect of alloy complexity on the superconductivity. We propose high-entropy alloys as excellent intermediate systems for studying superconductivity as it evolves between crystalline and amorphous materials.},
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journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
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year = {Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
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