Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Carbides, Borides and Organics

Presentations

• Superconducting Transition in New Thorium-Nickel-Carbon Ternary Compound ThNi$_{4}$C

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 2:30 PM – March 18, 2010, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Ted Grant

    • University of California Irvine

  • Antonio Jefferson S. Machado

    • EEL - USP - Brazil

  • Cigdem Capan

    • University of California - Irvine
    • University of California Irvine
    • UC Irvine

  • Z. Fisk

    • University of California - Irvine
    • University of California Irvine
    • UC Irvine
    • University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA

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• Effect of disorder on the electronic band structure of CaC$_6$: a first-principles study

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 2:42 PM – March 18, 2010, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Tom Berlijn

    • Stony Brook University/ Brookhaven National Laboratory

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• Phonon Softening and Instability of MgCNi$_{3}$; Phonon dispersion measurements

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 2:54 PM – March 18, 2010, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Hawoong Hong

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab

  • Mary Upton

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Ayman Said

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Hyun-Sook Lee

    • Pohang University of Science and Technology

  • Sung-Ik Lee

    • Sogang University

  • Ruqing Xu

    • University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Tai-Chang Chiang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Unconventional superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric Mo$_{3}$Al$_{2}$C

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 3:06 PM – March 18, 2010, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Amar Karki

    • LSU

  • David Young

    • LSU

  • Philip Adams

    • LSU
    • Louisiana State University

  • Ilya Vekhter

    • LSU
    • Louisiana State University

  • Dana A. Browne

    • LSU
    • Louisiana State University

  • Julia Chan

    • LSU

  • Edem Okudzeto

    • LSU

  • Ruslan Prozorov

    • ISU
    • Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
    • Ames Laboratory
    • Ames Lab and Iowa State University
    • Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

  • Hyunsoo Kim

    • ISU

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• An Ultra-Thin Molecular Superconductor Made from Charge Transfer Complexes

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 3:18 PM – March 18, 2010, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • S. Khan

    • Ohio University

  • K.-F. Braun

    • Ohio University

  • H. Tanaka

    • AIST Tsukuba, Japan

  • S.-W. Hla

    • Ohio University
    • Ohio University, Athens, OH
    • Ohio University, OH 45701, USA
    • Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701

  • Kendal Clark

    • Ohio University

  • A. Hassenien

    • AIST Tsukuba, Japan

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• Survey of Pauli Limiting and FFLO behavior in organic superconductors

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2010, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • William A. Coniglio

    • Clark University

  • Laurel E. Winter

    • Clark University

  • C. C. Agosta

    • Clark University

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• Upper critical field study in the organic superconductor $\beta''$-(ET)$_{2}$SF$_{5}$CH$_{2}$CF$_{2}$SO$_{3}$ : Possibility of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2010, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • John Schlueter

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Kyuil Cho

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

  • Braunen Smith

    • Clark University

  • William Coniglio

    • Clark University

  • Laurel Winter

    • Clark University

  • Charles Agosta

    • Clark University

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• Mixed pairing symmetry in $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X organic superconductors from ultrasonic velocity measurements

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2010, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Mario Poirier

    • Universite de Sherbrooke

  • Maxime Dion

    • Universite de Sherbrooke

  • D. Fournier

    • Universite de Sherbrooke
    • University of British Columbia
    • Physics and Astronomy department, University of British Columbia, 2355 East Mall, V6R 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada.

  • A.M.S Tremblay

    • Universite de Sherbrooke
    • Departement de Physique and RQMP, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

  • Kim D. Truong

    • Universite de Sherbrooke

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• Upper Critical Field of Carbon-doped MgB$_{2}$ Thin Films by HPCVD Using TMB

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2010, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Wenqing Dai

    • Physics Department, Penn State University

  • Dwight Rickel

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Xiaojun Weng

    • MRI, Penn State University

  • Ke Chen

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Temple University

  • Joan Redwing

    • Department of MSE, Penn State University

  • Qi Li

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Penn State University
    • Physics Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802

  • Xiaoxing Xi

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Temple University

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• Josephson and Multi-Gap Quasi-Particle Tunneling in Crystalline MgB$_{2}$-based Junctions with an MgO Sputtered Barrier

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2010, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jean-Baptiste Laloe

    • MIT

  • J. S. Moodera

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• Microwave Resonant Activation of MgB2 Thin Film Josephson Junction

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2010, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Roberto Ramos

    • Drexel University

  • Joseph Lambert

    • Drexel University

  • Steven Carabello

    • Drexel University

  • J.T. Mlack

    • Drexel University

  • Zechariah Thrailkill

    • Drexel University

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• Study of native oxide on MgB$_{2}$ thin films by electron tunneling

  ORAL

  March 18, 2010, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2010, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ke Chen

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Temple University

  • Qi Li

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Penn State University
    • Physics Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802

  • Xiaoxing Xi

    • Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Physics Department, Temple University

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