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Electrical measurements for superconducting hydrides using diamond anvil cell with boron-doped diamond electrodes

Dec.1 14:15-14:30 (Tokyo Time)

*Ryo Matsumoto1, Mari Einaga2, Shintaro Adachi3, Sayaka Yamamoto1,4, Kazuki Nakamura1,4, Tetsuo Irifune5, Hiroyuki Takeya1, Yuki Nakamoto2, Katsuya Shimizu2, Satoshi Nakano1, Yoshihiko Takano1,4

National Institute for Materials Science, Japan1

Osaka University, Japan2

Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan3

University of Tsukuba, Japan4

Ehime University, Japan5

Recently, several high-Tc superconducting hydrides were discovered via high-pressure experiments above 100 GPa, for example, H3S [1], LaH10 [2], and YH9 [3]. Theoretical prediction suggests superconductivity at 473 K udner 250 GPa in ternary hydride Li2MgH16 [4]. However, the synthesis and electrical measurements for such hydrides are technically difficult because of a hydrogen sealing and preparation of micro-electrodes into a tiny sample chamber of diamond anvil cell (DAC). In this presentation, our originally designed DAC with boron-doped diamond electrodes and undoped diamond insulating layer for synthesis and measurements of superconducting hydrides will be introduced. As a test experiment, we tried to synthesis for superconducting sulfur hydrides and observed the Tc at around 25 K under 120 GPa [5].

[1] A. P. Drozdov et al., Nature 525, 73 (2015).
[2] M. Somayazulu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027001 (2019).
[3] P. P. Kong et al., arXiv:1909.10482 (2019).
[4] Y. Sun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097001 (2019).
[5] R. Matsumoto et al., arXiv:2006.09671 (2020).

Figure :R-T properties under high pressures for compressed sulfur hydrides.

Keywords: Diamond Anvil Cell, High Pressure, Hydride

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