Superconductivity in ternary pyrite-type compound IrBi${}_{1-x}$Te${}_{1+x}$ ($x\approx 0.2$) at ambient and high pressure

Qing-Ge Mu, Walter Schnelle, Guo-Wei Li +3

We report superconductivity in the ternary compound IrBi${}_{0.8}$Te${}_{1.2}$ with critical temperature 1.7 K. The replacement of Bi by Te leads to the metallic conductivity in contra…