Superconductivity in Shear Strained Semiconductors
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Publication Title
Chinese Physics Letters
Volume
38
Issue
8
First page number:
1
Last page number:
11
Abstract
Semiconductivity and superconductivity are remarkable quantum phenomena that have immense impact on science and technology, and materials that can be tuned, usually by pressure or doping, to host both types of quantum states are of great fundamental and practical significance. Here we show by first-principles calculations a distinct route for tuning semiconductors into superconductors by diverse large-range elastic shear strains, as demonstrated in exemplary cases of silicon and silicon carbide. Analysis of strain driven evolution of bonding structure, electronic states, lattice vibration, and electron-phonon coupling unveils robust pervading deformation induced mechanisms auspicious for modulating semiconducting and superconducting states under versatile material conditions. This finding opens vast untapped structural configurations for rational exploration of tunable emergence and transition of these intricate quantum phenomena in a broad range of materials.
Controlled Subject
Superconductivity; Semiconductors--Design and construction
Disciplines
Physics
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Liu, C.,
Song, X.,
Li, Q.,
Ma, Y.,
Chen, C.
(2021).
Superconductivity in Shear Strained Semiconductors.
Chinese Physics Letters, 38(8),
1-11.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/38/8/086301