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On the role of chalcogen vapor annealing in inducing bulk superconductivity in Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$

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 نشر من قبل Tom Berlijn
 تاريخ النشر 2015
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Recent investigations have shown that Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ can be made superconducting by annealing it in Se and O vapors. The current lore is that these chalcogen vapors induce superconductivity by removing the magnetic excess Fe atoms. To investigate this phenomenon we performed a combination of magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and transport measurements together with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations on Fe$_{1+y}$Te$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ treated with Te vapor. We conclude that the main role of the Te vapor is to quench the magnetic moments of the excess Fe atoms by forming FeTe$_{m}$ (m $geq$ 1) complexes. We show that the remaining FeTe$_{m}$ complexes are still damaging to the superconductivity and therefore that their removal potentially could further improve superconductive properties in these compounds.



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