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Revisiting the physical properties of (LaS)1+d(NbS2) misfit-layered compounds
Masanori Nagao, Dan Mouri, Yuki Maruyama +3
Electrical transport in polycrystalline and single-crystalline (LaS)1+d(NbS2) misfit-layered compounds was measured. Polycrystalline samples were synthesized using S raw materials…
Superconducting phase diagram of Sb and Se substitution in CeOBiS2 single crystals
Tatsuya Suzuki, Masanori Nagao, Yuki Maruyama +2
Sb- and Se-substituted CeOBiS2 single crystals have been successfully grown using CsCl/KCl flux. Sb and Se substitution dependence of the superconductivity on CeOBiS2 was investiga…
Growth and Characterization of Superconducting Bulk Crystal [(SnSe)](NbSe) Misfit Layer Compounds
Ryufa Shu, Masanori Nagao, Chiaya Yamamoto +5
[(SnSe)](NbSe) ( = 1-6, 8, and 12) highly orientated crystals 1-2 mm in size and well-defined c-planes were successfully grown using CsCl/KCl flux, including the…
Suppression of superconductivity by Sb-substitution into CeOBiS2 single crystals
Tatsuya Suzuki, Yuji Hanada, Masanori Nagao +3
Sb-substituted CeOBiS2 single crystals with 0.2-1.0 mm size have been successfully grown using CsCl/KCl flux. Sb substitution strongly suppressed the superconductivity in CeOBiS2,…
Effects of equivalent composition on superconducting properties of high-entropy REOBiS (RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd) single crystals
Yuma Fujita, Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura +6
Superconductors are influenced by high-entropy alloys (HEAs); these have been investigated in various functional materials. REOBiS (RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, and Gd in different…
Growth of REBa2Cu3Ox single-crystal whiskers utilizing the concept of high-entropy alloys
Yasunori Suzuki, Masanori Nagao, Yuki Maruyama +2
Single-crystal whiskers of REBa2Cu3Ox (RE-123, RE: rare earth element) cuprate superconductors were successfully grown using Te-doped precursors utilizing the concept of high-entro…
Investigation of superconductivity in Ce-doped (La,Pr)OBiS2 single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Yuji Hanada, Akira Miura +4
Single crystals of Ce-doped (La,Pr)OBiS2 superconductors, multinary rare-earth elements substituted ROBiS2, were successfully grown. The grown crystals typically had a size of 1-2…
Fluorine solubility and superconducting properties of Sm(O,F)BiS single crystals
Koki Kinami, Yuji Hanada, Masanori Nagao +5
Sm(O,F)BiS2 superconducting single crystals with various nominal F contents have been grown using KI-KCl flux. The solid solution limit of F at the O-site in Sm(O,F)BiS2 single cry…
Growth and anisotropy evaluation of NbBiCh (Ch = S, Se) misfit-layered superconducting single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura, Yoichi Horibe +4
NbBiCh (Ch = S, Se) misfit-layered superconducting single crystals were successfully grown using a CsCl/KCl flux for the first time. The obtained crystals had a well-developed…
Growth of superconducting Sm(O,F)BiS2 single crystals
Koki Kinami, Yuji Hanada, Masanori Nagao +6
Superconducting Sm(O,F)BiS2 single crystals were successfully grown using KI-KCl flux. The obtained single crystals were flat-shaped and their size was 500um. The structure and com…
Growth and transport properties under high pressure of PrOBiS2 single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura, Ryo Matsumoto +5
PrOBiS2 single crystals were successfully grown using a KCl flux. The obtained crystals had a plate-like shape with a typical size of 0.5-1.0 mm and well-developed ab-plane. The Pr…
Growth and physical properties of Ce(O,F)Sb(S,Se)2 single crystals with site-selected chalcogen atoms
Masanori Nagao, Masashi Tanaka, Akira Miura +6
Ce(O,F)Sb(S,Se)2 single crystals were successfully grown using a CsCl/KCl flux method. The obtained crystals have a plate-like shape with the typical size of 1-2 mm and well-develo…
Coexistence of superconductivity and charge-density wave in the quasi-one-dimensional material HfTe3
Saleem J. Denholme, Akinori Yukawa, Kohei Tsumura +6
We present the first experimental evidence for metallicity, superconductivity (SC) and the co-existence of charge density waves (CDW) in the quasi-one-dimensional material HfTe3. T…
Superconductivity and its Enhancement under High Pressure in "F-free" Single Crystals of CeOBiS
Masashi Tanaka, Masanori Nagao, Ryo Matsumoto +6
"F-free" CeOBiS single crystals have successfully grown, thoroughly eliminating a concern about F-contamination by using a high-purity CsCl flux. The obtained crystals have a p…
Growth and superconducting properties of Cd-doped La(O,F)BiS2 single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Masashi Tanaka, Satoshi Watauchi +2
Cd-doped La(O,F)BiS2 single crystals were grown using a CsCl/KCl flux. The grown crystals have a plate-like shape with ~1-2 mm square size in a well-developed ab-plane. The Cd dopi…
Unconventional superconductivity in the BiS-based layered superconductor NdOFBiS
Yuichi Ota, Kozo Okazaki, Haruyoshi Q. Yamamoto +8
We investigate the superconducting-gap anisotropy in one of the recently discovered BiS-based superconductors, NdOFBiS ( 5 K), using laser-bas…
Superconductivity in CeOBiS2 with cerium valence fluctuation
Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura, Ikuo Ueta +2
Resistivities of single-crystalline as well as poly-crystalline samples of CeOBiS2 without fluorine doping were measured at temperatures down to 0.13 K, and were compared with thos…
Conventional s-wave superconductivity in BiS2-based NdO0.71F0.29BiS2 revealed by thermal transport measurements
T. Yamashita, Y. Tokiwa, D. Terazawa +5
To study the superconducting gap structure of BiS-based layered compound NdOFBiS ( = 5 K), we measured the thermal conductivity , which…
C-axis electrical resistivity of PrOFBiS single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura, Satoshi Watauchi +2
The high anisotropy in RO1-aFaBiS2 (R denotes a rare-earth element) superconductors demonstrates their potential use as intrinsic Josephson junctions, considering the weak coupling…
Proximity to Fermi-surface topological change in superconducting LaO0.54F0.46BiS2
K. Terashima, J. Sonoyama, T. Wakita +16
The electronic structure of nearly optimally-doped novel superconductor LaOFBiS ( = 0.46) was investigated using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy…
Growth and superconducting anisotropies of F-substituted LaOBiSe2 single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Masashi Tanaka, Satoshi Watauchi +2
F-substituted LaOBiSe2 single crystals were grown using CsCl flux. The obtained single crystals showed a plate-like shape with a size of about 1.0 mm square. The c-axis lattice con…
Crystal structures of LaO1-xFxBiS2 (x~0.23, 0.46): effect of F doping on distortion of Bi-S plane
Akira Miura, Masanori Nagao, Takahiro Takei +3
The crystal structures of superconducting LaO1-xFxBiS2 (x ~ 0.23, 0.46) were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Their space group was P4/nmm. Distortion of th…
Growth and superconducting properties of F-substituted ROBiS2 (R = La, Ce, Nd) single crystals
Masanori Nagao, Akira Miura, Satoshi Demura +6
F-substituted ROBiS2 (R = La, Ce, Nd) superconducting single crystals with different F concentration were grown successfully using CsCl/KCl flux. All the obtained single crystals h…
Structural Analysis and Superconducting Properties of F-Substituted NdOBiS2 Single Crystals
Masanori Nagao, Satoshi Demura, Keita Deguchi +6
F-substituted NdOBiS2 superconducting single crystals were grown using CsCl/KCl flux. This is the first example of the single-crystal growth of a BiS2-based superconductor. The obt…