In this paper we report the fabrication and superconducting properties of GdO1-xFxFeAs. It was found that when x is equal to 0.17, GdO0.83F0.17FeAs is a su-perconductor with the onset transition temperature Tcon ≈ 36.6 K. Resistivity anomaly near 130 K was observed for all samples up to x = 0.17, and such a phenomenon is similar to that of LaO1-xFxFeAs. Hall coefficient indicates that GdO1-xFxFeAs is conducted by electron-like charge carriers.
CHENG Peng, FANG Lei, YANG Huan, ZHU XiYu, MU Gang, LUO HuiQian, WANG ZhaoSheng & WEN HaiHu National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Low-temperature specific heat was measured on the BaFe1.9Ni0.1As2 single crystals with critical transition temperature Tc = 20.1 K.A clear specific heat jump with the value ΔC/T|Tc ≈ 23 mJ/mol K2 was observed.In addition,a roughly linear magnetic field dependence of the electronic specific heat coefficient Δγ(H) was found in the zero-temperature limit,suggesting that at least one Fermi pocket,probably the hole derivative one,was fully gapped with a small anisotropy in the present sample.A slight curvature of the curve Δγ(H) may suggest a complex gap structure(anisotropic gap or nodes) at other Fermi surfaces.
Superconductivity was achieved in Ti-doped iron-arsenide compound Sr4Cr0.8Ti1.2O6Fe2As2 (abbreviated as Cr-FeAs-42622). The X-ray diffraction measurement shows that this material has a layered structure with the space group of P4/nmm,and with the lattice constants a = b = 3.9003 and c = 15.8376 . Clear diamagnetic signals in ac susceptibility data and zero-resistance in resistivity data were detected at about 6 K,confirming the occurrence of bulk superconductivity. Meanwhile we observed a supercon-ducting transition in the resistive data with the onset transition temperature at 29.2 K,which may be induced by the nonuniform distribution of the Cr/Ti content in the FeAs-42622 phase.
ZHU XiYu,HAN Fei,MU Gang,CHENG Peng,SHEN Bing,ZENG Bin & WEN HaiHu National Laboratory for Superconductivity,Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
Low-temperature specific heat in a dichalcogenide superconductor 2H-NbSe 2 is measured in various magnetic fields. It is found that the specific heat can be described very well by a simple model concerning two components corresponding to vortex normal core and ambient superconducting region, separately. For calculating the specific heat outside the vortex core region, we use the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) formalism under the assumption of a narrow distribution of the superconducting gaps. The field-dependent vortex core size in the mixed state of 2H-NbSe 2 , determined by using this model, can explain the nonlinear field dependence of specific heat coefficient γ(H), which is in good agreement with the previous experimental results and more formal calculations. With the high-temperature specific heat data, we can find that, in the multi-band superconductor 2H-NbSe 2 , the recovered density of states (or Fermi surface) below T c under a magnetic field seems not to be gapped again by the charge density wave (CDW) gap, which suggests that the superconducting gap and the CDW gap may open on different Fermi surface sheets.
