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Superconductivity in Iron Telluride Thin Films under Tensile Stress

Y. Han, W. Y. Li, L. X. Cao, X. Y. Wang, B. Xu, B. R. Zhao, Y. Q. Guo, J. L. Yang

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.017003 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

By realizing in thin films a tensile stress state, superconductivity of 13 K was introduced into FeTe, a nonsuperconducting parent compound of the iron pnictides and chalcogenides, with a transition temperature higher than that of its superconducting isostructural counterpart FeSe. For these tensile stressed films, superconductivity is accompanied by a softening of the first-order magnetic and structural phase transition, and also, the in-plane extension and out-of-plane contraction are universal in all FeTe films independent of the sign of the lattice mismatch, either positive or negative. Moreover, the correlations were found to exist between the transition temperatures and the tetrahedra bond angles in these thin films.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
FeTe

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13Pressure not reportedonset
FeTe

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9.1Pressure not reportedzero_resistance
FeTe

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13Pressure not reportedonset
FeSe

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37Pressure not reportedunknown

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