High pressure synthesis of late rare earth RFeAs(O,F) superconductors; R = Tb and Dy

Bos, Jan-Willem G.; Penny, George B. S.; Rodgers, Jennifer A.; Sokolov, Dmitry A.; Huxley, Andrew D.; Attfield, J. Paul

High pressure synthesis of late rare earth RFeAs(O,F) superconductors; R = Tb and Dy

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New TbFeAs(O,F) and DyFeAs(O,F) superconductors with critical temperatures Tc= 46 and 45 K and very high critical fields over 100 T have been prepared at 1100- 1150C and 10-12 GPa, demonstrating that high pressure may be used to synthesise late rare earth derivatives of the recently reported RFeAs(O,F) (R = La - Nd, Sm, Gd) high temperature superconductors.
To be published as a Chemical Communication