TY - CONF
T1 - HIGH PRESSURE STUDY ON QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPOUNDS M//2Mo//6X//6.
AU - Hor, P. H.
AU - Meng, R. L.
AU - Chu, C. W.
AU - Tarascon, J. M.
AU - Wu, M. K.
N1 - Funding Information:
t Supported by Low Temperature Physics Program NSF Grant No. DMR-8204173, NASA contact No. NAS 8-35161 and Energy Laboratory, University of Houston. * Supported by the Research Institute, University of Alabama.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - The M//2Mo//6X//6 compounds, with M being a nontransition metal element and X a chalcogen atom, crystallize in a hexagonal lattice consisting of linear chains of stacks of Mo//6X//6-clusters formed by a Mo-triangle surrounded by chalcogen-triangles. We have investigated resistively the M//2Mo//6X//6 polycrystalline compounds under pressures up to 160 kbar down to 1 K. The broad M-I transition and the activation energy during the transition are suppressed monotonically by pressure. Superconductivity has been induced in K//2Mo//6Se//6, K//2Mo//6Te//6, Na//2Mo//6Se//6, Na//2Mo//6Te//6 and Rb//2Mo//6Se//6 by pressure with a transition temperature T//c between 1 and 4K. A large resistance-increase prior to the superconducting transition is always observed. While the critical pressure for the induction of superconductivity depends on M, the T//c-behavior under pressure is affected only by X.
AB - The M//2Mo//6X//6 compounds, with M being a nontransition metal element and X a chalcogen atom, crystallize in a hexagonal lattice consisting of linear chains of stacks of Mo//6X//6-clusters formed by a Mo-triangle surrounded by chalcogen-triangles. We have investigated resistively the M//2Mo//6X//6 polycrystalline compounds under pressures up to 160 kbar down to 1 K. The broad M-I transition and the activation energy during the transition are suppressed monotonically by pressure. Superconductivity has been induced in K//2Mo//6Se//6, K//2Mo//6Te//6, Na//2Mo//6Se//6, Na//2Mo//6Te//6 and Rb//2Mo//6Se//6 by pressure with a transition temperature T//c between 1 and 4K. A large resistance-increase prior to the superconducting transition is always observed. While the critical pressure for the induction of superconductivity depends on M, the T//c-behavior under pressure is affected only by X.
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:0022195019
SP - 245
EP - 247
ER -