Carbon-substituted MgB2 single crystals

Details Carbon-substituted MgB2 single crystals Carbon-substituted MgB2 single crystals

2003-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305485v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; to be published in Physica C

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(03)01296-6

Carbon-substituted MgB2 single crystals, Mg(B_1-xC_x)_2 of 0.3-1.0 mm size were grown for x=0.02-0.15 by a high-pressure technique. The doping dependence of lattice constants studied in a range of x=0.0-0.2 shows a monotonic decrease in a, while the c parameter remains almost invariant. Using X-ray diffraction and Auger electron spectroscopy, the solubility limit of C in MgB2 was estimated to be about 15(+/-)1%,which is substantially larger than that reported for the polycrystalline samples synthesized by encapsulation techniques. Measurements of temperature dependence of magnetization and resistivity showed a dramatic decrease in Tc with C-substitution, followed by complete suppression of superconductivity for x>0.125. Resistivity measurements in magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to the basal plane of the crystals showed a nearly isotropic state in the heavily-doped crystals (x>0.1).

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