Superconductivity in LiFeO2Fe2Se2 with anti-PbO-type Spacer Layers

Abstract

Superconductivity has been found in the iron-arsenides with different structures by alternative stacking of the conducting Fe2As2 layers and spacer layers including alkali- or alkali-earth metal ions and PbO- or perovskite-type oxides blocks. So far, no spacer layer could be intercalated in between the neutral Fe2Se2 layers similar in structure to Fe2As2 layers except for alkali-metal ions in AxFe2-ySe2. The superconducting phase in AxFe2-ySe2 with transition temperature of 32 K is always inter-grown with the insulating phase which exhibits an antiferromagnetic order with extremely high Neel temperature of ~560 K and the order of Fe vacancies. Such inhomogeneity makes the investigation on the underlying physics in AxFe2-ySe2 complicated. Here we report the synthesis of a novel superconductor LiFeO2Fe2Se2 by hydrothermal method, exhibiting superconductivity at ~43 K, in which anti-PbO-type spacer layers of LiFeO2 have been successfully intercalated between anti-PbO-type Fe2Se2 layers. This finding demonstrates that superconductivity can be realized in the iron selenide with a novel spacer layer of anti-PbO-type, which is not found in the iron arsenides, and expands the category of the iron-based superconductors. Such a new synthetic method paves a new way to search for possible novel superconductors with different spacer layers, which is helpful to further study the underlying physics in iron-based high-Tc superconductors.

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