Persistent antiferromagnetic order in heavily overdoped Ca1−xLaxFeAs2
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Iron based superconductors are a family of materials that attracts considerable attention, because of the high-temperature superconductivity and unconventional pairing mechanism. All compounds have a conducting layer made of iron and a pnictide (often Arsenic), and differ from the atoms and structure in between those layers. Among the different families, the Ca1−xLaxFeAs2, known as 112, is a recently discovered one. It also displays the peculiar property of having a conducting plane made of As zig-zag chains, as well as microscopic coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetic order.
Using the high-pressure crystal growth apparatus in the Laboratory of Complex Matter Physics we created and investigated a new composition of 112 Fe-based superconductors, exploring the material properties when overdoped with electrons, achieved by replacing more than 50% Ca by La. Magnetic measurements show an antiferromagnetic transition at TN = 120 K, well above the one at lower doping (0.15 < x < 0.27). Because the limited size of single crystals produced by high pressure synthesis, Focused Ion Beam microstructure was used to prepare a hall bar sample for magnetoresistance and Hall coefficient measurement. To complete the study, single crystal X-ray diffraction data have been collected at ESRF Synchrotron, further strengthening our findings from magnetization and transport measurements.
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31:485705
3 September 2019
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab3b43
