Structure of beta-Mo2N in the normal and superconducting states; an in-situ resistivity study.

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A recent experiment (RB820171) unexpectedly revealed that a sample of beta-Mo2N exhibited a number of extra reflections at 4 K; a temperature below the superconducting critical temperature of the nitride. We propose an experiment on POLARIS to investigate systematically the evolving structure of beta-Mo2N between 293 & 2 K as the nitride moves from the normal to the superconducting state. Importantly, we propose to perform this experiment as an in-situ resistivity measurement using unique facilities at POLARIS. The structure of beta-Mo2N has never been accurately determined at 293 K and never investigated in the superconducting state (nor at intermediate temperatures). We propose to perform the first in-situ resistivity neutron experiment through a superconducting phase transition and in the process unravel the potentially complex sub-ambient structural phase behaviour of beta-Mo2N.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24078254
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24078254
Provenance
Creator Professor Anthony Powell; Dr Steve Hull; Dr Ron Smith; Professor Duncan Gregory; Dr Justin Hargreaves
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-11-17T09:59:50Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-20T09:42:44Z