Band filling and width control in fullerides

Y. Iwasa, S. Taga, T. Takenobu, H. Shimoda, T. Mitani, K. Prassides, C. M. Brown

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Abstract

Highly doped states of fullerene C60 solids have been investigated. A single phase of binary Ba4C60 was first synthesized and confirmed to be a noncubic ambient pressure superconductor. By cointercalation of alkali metals and Ba, an isostructural series of alkali-Ba-C60 ternaries have been synthesized. This new class of compounds allows us to vary the band-filling and band-filling with keeping the body-centered-cubic (bcc) structure unchanged. Systematic synthesis study of these Ba-including fullerides uncovered various aspects of the highly doped fullerides. Of particular interest is that the criteria for the occurrence of superconductivity are considerably different between the low and high reduction states. Superconductivity at the low reduction state is strictly limited at the half-filling of the t1u band and the fcc-related structures, while that at the high reduction state appears at several valence states irrespective of crystal structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2462-2465
Number of pages4
JournalSynthetic Metals
Volume103
Issue number1-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1999 Jun 24
EventProceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM-98) - Montpellier
Duration: 1998 Jul 121998 Jul 18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metals and Alloys
  • Materials Chemistry

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