Nature Communications (May 2021)

Superconductivity emerging from a stripe charge order in IrTe2 nanoflakes

  • Sungyu Park,
  • So Young Kim,
  • Hyoung Kug Kim,
  • Min Jeong Kim,
  • Taeho Kim,
  • Hoon Kim,
  • Gyu Seung Choi,
  • C. J. Won,
  • Sooran Kim,
  • Kyoo Kim,
  • Evgeny F. Talantsev,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Sang-Wook Cheong,
  • B. J. Kim,
  • H. W. Yeom,
  • Jonghwan Kim,
  • Tae-Hwan Kim,
  • Jun Sung Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23310-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Superconductivity often appears due to suppression of competing electronic orders. Here, the authors present a contrary example showing a superconducting dome inside the parent phase with a stripe charge order in IrTe2 nanoflakes and identify their unusual superconducting properties.