National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar

"Absence of Superconductivity in the Hole Doped Li0.38BC"

Presented by Engin Ozdas, Hacettepe University, Physics Department,, Ankara, Turkey

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 3:00 pm — Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

The existence of several borocarbides with crystal structures highly related to MgB2, in which one of these, the layered LiBC has been predicted based on the electronic structure calculations that this compound should become superconducting on doping with holes. However, the superconducting features for Li off-stoichiometric borocarbide compounds have not been observed in any experimental studies, because of the difficulties in the sample preparation. In this work, the effects of synthesis conditions on the structure of LixBC samples with the different Li content and the phase stability were investigated. The structural studies showed that the intercalation process has a staging behavior as Li intercalated graphite and a novel Li vacancy ordered structure for off-stoichiometric stage-2 Li0.38BC phase. The temperature dependence of the conductivity shows semiconducting behavior over the whole temperature range and the hopping type conduction improved by the hole doping.

Hosted by: Chi-Chang Kao

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