Formation of a superconducting hexagonal Nb-Si phase by pulsed laser quenching
- 4 August 1986
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 49 (5) , 295-297
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.97146
Abstract
A new metastable phase of composition NbxSi1−x (0.72<x<0.78) has been synthesized by nanosecond and picosecond pulsed laser quenching. The structure was studied by electron diffraction and found to be hexagonal with lattice parameters a=0.748 nm and c=0.514 nm (for x=0.75). The superconducting transition temperature Tc (for x=0.78) was 2.7 K.Keywords
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