Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
Adv Mater. 2023 May;35(19):e2207841. doi: 10.1002/adma.202207841. Epub 2023 Mar 27.
2D transition metal dichalcogenides are promising platforms for next-generation electronics and spintronics. The layered Weyl semimetal (W,Mo)Te series features structural phase transition, nonsaturated magnetoresistance, superconductivity, and exotic topological physics. However, the superconducting critical temperature of the bulk (W,Mo)Te remains ultralow without applying a high pressure. Here, the significantly enhanced superconductivity is observed with a transition temperature as large as about 7.5 K in bulk Mo Ta Te single crystals upon Ta doping (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.22), which is attributed to an enrichment of density of states at the Fermi level. In addition, an enhanced perpendicular upper critical field of 14.5 T exceeding the Pauli limit is also observed in T -phase Mo Ta Te (x = 0.08), indicating the possible emergence of unconventional mixed singlet-triplet superconductivity owing to the inversion symmetry breaking. This work provides a new pathway for exploring the exotic superconductivity and topological physics in transition metal dichalcogenides.
二维过渡金属二卤族化合物是下一代电子学和自旋电子学的有前途的平台。层状外尔半金属 (W,Mo)Te 系列具有结构相变、不饱和磁电阻、超导性和奇异拓扑物理。然而,在没有施加高压的情况下,块状 (W,Mo)Te 的超导临界温度仍然超低。在这里,在 Ta 掺杂 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.22) 的块状 MoTaTe 单晶中观察到显著增强的超导性,其转变温度高达约 7.5 K,这归因于费米能级处的态密度增加。此外,在 T 相 MoTaTe(x = 0.08)中还观察到增强的垂直上临界场为 14.5 T,超过了泡利极限,这表明由于反转对称性破缺,可能出现非常规的混合单重态-三重态超导性。这项工作为探索过渡金属二卤族化合物中的奇异超导性和拓扑物理提供了新途径。