Superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric iridium silicide Li2IrSi3

Sunseng Pyon; Kazutaka Kudo; Jun Ichi Matsumura; Hiroyuki Ishii; Genta Matsuo; Minoru Nohara; Hajime Hojo; Kengo Oka; Masaki Azuma; V. Ovidiu Garlea; Katsuaki Kodama; Shin Ichi Shamoto

doi:10.7566/JPSJ.83.093706

Superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric iridium silicide Li₂IrSi₃

Sunseng Pyon, Kazutaka Kudo, Jun Ichi Matsumura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Genta Matsuo, Minoru Nohara, Hajime Hojo, Kengo Oka, Masaki Azuma, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Katsuaki Kodama, Shin Ichi Shamoto

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The effects of lithium absorption on the crystal structure and electronic properties of IrSi ₃, a binary silicide with a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure, were studied. X-ray and neutron diffraction experiments revealed that hexagonal IrSi₃ (space group P6₃mc) transforms into trigonal Li₂IrSi₃ (space group P31c) upon lithium absorption. The structure of Li₂IrSi ₃ is found to consist of a planar kagome network of silicon atoms with Li and Ir spaced at unequal distances between the kagome layers, resulting in a polar structure along the c-axis. Li₂IrSi₃ exhibited type-II superconductivity with a transition temperature T_c of 3.8 K, displaying a structure type that no previous superconductors have been reported to have.

Original language	English
Article number	093706
Journal	journal of the physical society of japan
Volume	83
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.83.093706
Publication status	Published - Sep 15 2014

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Superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric iridium silicide Li₂IrSi₃

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