Talk:Iron-based superconductor

More properly iron based superconductors ( especially since pure iron is a SC under pressure).

The name for this new family of SC may change soon when we discover if Iron and/or the pnictogen are essential or not. It would be a shame to duplicate text on this and the oxypnictide article Rod57 (talk) 19:45, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. Even if iron stays in the name, the more common term is "iron-based superconductor" which redirects here. "Iron superconductor" is simply bad English.  Is there any objection to reversing the redirect? Spiel496 (talk) 19:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Apparently not so I've done the move and will try to tidy up the intro and any redirects.Rod57 (talk) 14:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Now they seem to be referred to as iron pnictides or iron arsenides. Rod57 (talk) 03:33, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

main
Is oxypnictide really the main article now? Far more families of iron-based superconductors without oxygen have now been found and the critical temperature values of the fluorine pnictides are similar to those of the oxypnictides. In my view, the oxypnictide article should be see also. Doktor Waf (talk) 18:44, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * OK. Removed main oxypnictide Rod57 (talk) 16:24, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

swap rows and columns of table
Anyone object to swapping the rows and columns of the table so it isn't so wide ? Rod57 (talk) 03:09, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I was going to suggest the same (I think I made that table but don't recall why this layout). Materialscientist (talk) 03:19, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, done it. Should be easier to maintain like this - and could add date or pressure columns and sortable columns.
 * If anyone knows how to put the two tables side by side that might look better. Rod57 (talk) 16:51, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Iron Tellurium Sulphur
Moisture-induced superconductivity in FeTe0.8S0.2 (Free version) was referred to in New Scientist "Sozzled superconducters" 25 Dec 2010. Source says it superconducts at 10.5 K when made by melting - The solid-state method benefits from exposure to moisture but only SC upto 7.2 K. Rod57 (talk) 11:14, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Discovery
I was surprised not to find a reference to the original publication on the discovery of superconductivity in the iron-pnictides. And also the first author, Yoichi Kamihara should be credited. The original publication is:

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (11), pp 3296–3297 DOI: 10.1021/ja800073m

and can be found here:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja800073m

I am new to wikipedia and therefor don't want to start editing articles right away. And please excuse any spelling or grammar errors as english is not my first language.

-- SolidStateDD (talk) 15:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

There is a previous publication from this group later in the text. I cleaned this and add the paper you cite. Alfonsedode (talk) 15:37, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

How are they usually categorized
One suggestion : - Rod57 (talk) 10:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * pnictides
 * oxypnictides
 * chalcogens
 * other
 * LaFeSiH