Superconductivity at 25.5 K in electron-doped layered hafnium nitride

Shoji Yamanaka (), Ken-ichi Hotehama and Hitoshi Kawaji
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Shoji Yamanaka: Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University
Ken-ichi Hotehama: Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University
Hitoshi Kawaji: Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6676, 580-582

Abstract: Abstract The electronic properties of crystals with a layered structure can be radically altered by the intercalation, between the layers, of guest species that act as electron donors or acceptors. Such studies have been performed extensively on graphite, transition-metal dichalcogenides and oxide bronzes1. Interest in redox intercalation reactions2 has increased recently because the high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors based on copper oxide also have layered structures, the superconductivity occurring within two-dimensional CuO2 planes separated by charge-reservoir oxide layers3. Similarly, in metal-doped fullerenes, which show relatively high transition temperatures, the electron donor atoms sit in the interstitial sites between adjacent fullerene balls4. In a previous study5, we described a layered nitride, β-ZrNCl, consisting of Zr–N double layers sandwiched between two close-packed chlorine layers. On lithium intercalation, the crystal changed from a semiconductor to a metal, and became a superconductor at 13 K. Here we report the properties of the isostructural compound β-HfNCl. After electron-doping the crystal by lithium intercalation, we observe superconductivity with a Tc of up to 25.5 K. This transition temperature is higher than that observed in any intermetallic compound, and suggests that layered nitride structures may offer transition temperatures comparable to those observed in layered copper oxide structures.

Date: 1998
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