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We report the discovery of superconductivity in SnSe with T c around 4.5 K at pressures exceeding 58 GPa. It is conjectured that the high-pressure superconducting modification has the CsCl structure.
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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 236 (February 1997)
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Timofeev, Y.A., Vinogradov, B.V. & Begoulev, V.B. Superconductivity of tin selenide at pressures up to 70 GPa. Phys. Solid State 39, 207 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130136
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