Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1517284 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Synthetic conditions such as stoichiometries, temperature and pressure are optimized to achieve a high quality oxygen deficient SmFeAsO0.6 superconductor. Both electric and magnetic measurements show a sharp superconducting transition at about 55 K. Several important physical parameters are deduced. The apparent superconducting gap observed in heat capacity with 2Δo/kBTc of 4.57 larger than that of previous fluorine replaced samples indicate that this superconductivity will not strongly conflict with the phonon-mediated BCS mechanism. The mean free length ℓ=18.8 nm and the coherent length ξ=2.3–3.3 nm show that the superconductivity is in the clean limit.

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