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Superconductivity in Cu-Intercalated CdI2-Type PdTe2

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We found a new Cu-intercalated bulk superconductor of CdI2-type Cu0.05PdTe2 with a large shielding volume fraction of almost 100 %. In particular, in this layered superconductor, Cu atoms are intercalated between the van der Waals layers. A large Cu-intercalated PdTe2 single crystal is also successfully grown using the conventional self-flux method using the quartz tube with the narrow cone-type seed zone of 1 cm. This result indicates that Cu x PdTe2 is a new example of intercalation-based layered superconductor.

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The author thanks CT Lin for useful discussion and H. Hoier and C. Buch for XRD and EDX measurements, respectively.

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Ryu, G. Superconductivity in Cu-Intercalated CdI2-Type PdTe2 . J Supercond Nov Magn 28, 3275–3280 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-015-3195-2

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