Fabrication and superconductivity of NaxTaS2 crystals

Details Fabrication and superconductivity of NaxTaS2 crystals Fabrication and superconductivity of NaxTaS2 crystals

2005-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502522v2

Phys. Rev. B72, 014534(2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 13 figures, To appear in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.014534

In this paper we report the growth and superconductivity of $Na_xTaS_2$ crystals. The structural data deduced from X-ray diffraction pattern shows that the sample has the same structure as $2H-TaS_2$. A series of crystals with different superconducting transition temperatures ($T_c$) ranging from 2.5 K to 4.4 K were obtained. It is found that the $T_c$ rises with the increase of $Na$ content determined by Energy-Dispersive x-ray microanalysis(EDX) of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) on these crystals. Compared with the resistivity curve of un-intercalated sample $2H-TaS_2$ ($T_c$ = 0.8 K, $T_{CDW} \approx$ 70 K), no signal of charge density wave (CDW) was observed in samples $Na_{0.1}TaS_2$ and $Na_{0.05}TaS_2$. However, in some samples with lower $T_c$, the CDW appears again at about 65 K. Comparison between the anisotropic resistivity indicates that the anisotropy becomes smaller in samples with more $Na$ intercalation (albeit a weak semiconducting behavior along c-axis) and thus higher $T_c$. It is thus concluded that there is a competition between the superconductivity and the CDW. With the increase of sodium content, the rise of $T_c$ in $Na_xTaS_2$ is caused mainly by the suppression to the CDW in $2H-TaS_2$, and the conventional rigid band model for layered dichalcogenide may be inadequate to explain the changes induced by the slight intercalation of sodium in $2H-TaS_2$.

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