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Title: Superconductivity in doped FeTe1-xSx (x= 0.00 to 0.25) single crystals

View PDF Abstract: We report self flux growth and characterization of FeTe1-xSx (x= 0.00 to 0.25) single crystal series. Surface X-ray diffraction (XRD) exhibited crystalline nature with growth in (00l) plane. Micro-structural (electron microscopy) images of representative crystals showed the slab-like morphology and near stoichiometric composition. Powder XRD analysis (Rietveld) of single crystals exhibited tetragonal structure with P4/nmm space group and decreasing a and c lattice parameters with increase in x. Electrical resistivity measurements (R-T) showed superconductivity with Tconset at 9.5K and 8.5K for x =0.10 and x =0.25 respectively. The un-doped crystal exhibited known step like anomaly at around 70K. Upper critical field Hc2(0), as calculated from magneto transport for x =0.25 crystal is around 60Tesla and 45Tesla in H//ab and H//c directions. Thermal activation energy [U0(H)] calculated for x =0.10 and 0.25 crystals followed weak power law, indicating single vortex pinning at low fields. Mossbauer spectra for FeTe1-xSx crystals at 300K and 5K are compared with non superconducting FeTe. Both quadrupole splitting (QS) and isomer shift (IS) for S doped crystals were found to decrease. Also at 5K the hyperfine field for x =0.10 superconducting crystal is decreased substantially from 10.6Tesla (FeTe) to 7.2Tesla. For x =0.25 crystal, though small quantity of un-reacted Fe is visible at room temperature, but unlike x =0.10, the low temperature (5K) ordered FeTe hyperfine field is nearly zero. Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) ; Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Cite as: arXiv:1809.06116 [cond-mat.supr-con] arXiv:1809.06116v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] for this version) View a PDF of the paper titled Superconductivity in doped FeTe1-xSx (x= 0.00 to 0.25) single crystals, by P. K Maheshwar (CSIR-NPL) V. Raghavendra Reddy (UGC-CSR IUC Indore) and 1 other authors

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