Exploration of iron-chalcogenide superconductors

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/8/087401

Abstract Iron-chalcogenide compounds with FeSe(Te, S) layers did not attract much attention until the discovery of high-T_c superconductivity (SC) in the iron-pnictide compounds at the begining of 2008. Compared with FeAs-based superconductors, iron-chalcogenide superconductors have aroused enormous enthusiasm to study the relationship between SC and magnetisms with several distinct features, such as different antiferromagnetic ground states with relatively large moments in the parents, indicating possibly different superconducting mechanisms, the existence of the excess Fe atoms or Fe vacancies in the crystal lattice. Another reason is that the large single crystals are easily grown for the iron-chalcogenide compounds. This review will focus on our exploration for the iron-chalcogenide superconductors and discussion on several issues, including the crystal structure, magnetic properties, superconductivity, and phase separation. Some of them reach a consensus but some important questions still remain to be answered.

Keywords: Fe-based superconductors Fe(Te,Se,S) compounds (Tl,K,Rb)Fe_xSe₂ compounds

Received: 06 May 2013
Revised: 09 July 2013
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PACS:	74.10.+v	(Occurrence, potential candidates)
	74.25.-q	(Properties of superconductors)
	74.25.Dw	(Superconductivity phase diagrams)
	74.72.Cj	(Insulating parent compounds)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CBA00103, 2012CB821404, and 2009CB929104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10974175, 10934005, and 11204059), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant No. Q12A040038), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China.

Corresponding Authors: Fang Ming-Hu
E-mail: mhfang@zju.edu.cn

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Dong Chi-Heng (董持衡), Wang Hang-Dong (王杭栋), Fang Ming-Hu (方明虎) Exploration of iron-chalcogenide superconductors 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 087401

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