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Item Open Access Characterisation of the Fermi surface and phase transitions of (BEDO-TTF)2 ReO4·(H2O) by physical property measurements and electronic band structure calculations(1994) Kahlich, Siegfried; Schweitzer, Dieter; Rovira, Concepcio; Paradis, Jeffrey A.; Whangbo, Myung-Hwan; Heinen, Ilsabe; Keller, Heimo J.; Nuber, Bernhard; Bele, Petra; Brunner, Hermann; Shibaeva, Rimma P.The electronic properties of the organic superconductor (BEDO-TTF)2 ReO4·(H2O) were investigated by temperature dependent resistivity, ESR, Hall effect and magnetoresistance measurements. Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations were observed in magnetic fields up to 24 T in the temperature range 0.5 K to 4.2 K. The electronic band structure of (BEDO-TTF)2 ReO4·(H2O) was calculated by employing the extended Hückel tight binding method on the basis of its room temperature crystal structure. The two observed SdH frequencies of 75 T and 37 T correspond very well with two cross-sectional areas of the hole and electron Fermi surface pockets obtained from the tight binding calculation. From the temperature dependence of the SdH oscillation amplitudes, the cyclotron effective mass (mc) belonging to the larger and smaller pockets were found to be 0.9 m0 and mc=1.15 m0 respectively. Measurements of the angular dependence of the SdH frequencies show no deviation from that expected for a cylindrical Fermi surface. In terms of our tight binding calculations and experimental measurements, probable causes for the 213 K and ∼35 K phase transitions are discussed. The calculations show that (BEDO-TTF)2 ReO4·(H2O) is a two dimensional semimetal but possesses a hidden nesting. The latter is likely to cause an SDW instability leading to the ∼35 K transition. The resistivity drop associated with the 213 K transition is likely to be induced by an abrupt increase in the relaxation time. The excellent agreement between the calculated and experimentally observed Fermi surface implies that, with decreasing temperature below 35 K, (BEDO-TTF)2 ReO4·(H2O) gradually gets out of the SDW state and re-enters the "original" metallic state, in which it becomes superconducting below 2.4 K.Item Open Access Transport properties of single crystals and polycristalline pressed samples of (BEDT-TTF)2X salts and related coordination polymers(1991) Schweitzer, Dieter; Kahlich, Siegfried; Gärtner, Stephan; Gogu, Emil; Grimm, Hans; Heinen, Ilsabe; Klutz, Thomas; Zamboni, Roberto; Keller, Heimo J.; Renner, GerdTen years ago in 1979, superconductivity was observed for the first time in an organic metal. today, about 30 different organic metals are known, which become superconducting under pressure or ambient pressure. The organic superconductors with the highest transition temperatures are all radical salts of the donor bis(ethylenedithioio)-tettathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF), namely at ambient pressure (BEDT-TTF)2CU(NCS)2 (Tc = 10.4 K) and αt,-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 (Tc = 8 K) and under isotropic pressure β H- (BEDT-TTF)2I3(0.5 kbar, Tc = 7.5 K) The latter β H-phase can even become superconducting at 8 K and ambient pressure, after a special pressure-temperature cycling procedure i.e. pressurization up to 1 kbar at room temperature, and release of the helium gas pressure at temperarures below 125 K. Nevertheless, this superconducting state at 8 K in β H-(BEDT -TTF)2I3 is only metastable , since warming up the crystal above 125 K and cooling down again under ambient pressure, results only in superconductivity at 1.3 K, the so-called β L - or β-phase.Item Open Access (BEDO-TTF)2ReO4·(H2O): a new organic superconductor(1991) Kahlich, Siegfried; Schweitzer, Dieter; Heinen, Ilsabe; Song, En Lan; Nuber, Bernhard; Keller, Heimo J.; Winzer, Klaus; Helberg, Hans W.The structure and the temperature dependence of the resistivity, thermopower and ac-susceptibility of the new organic metal (BEDO-TTF)2ReO4(H2O) was investigated. The resistivity and thermopower data indicate phase transitions at 213K, around 90K and 35K. Below 2.5K an onset to superconductivity is observed in the resistivity data. Superconductivity was suppressed in the resistivity at 1.3K by applying a magnetic field of about 0.2T. Ac-susceptibility data indicate that superconductivity is a bulk effect in (BEDO-TTF)2ReO4(H2O) but the onset for superconductivity observed in the ac-susceptibility is only at 0.9K and the transition seems to be complete only at temperatures below 50 mK. This broad transition might be due to some disorder in the structure created by the low temperature phase transitions.Item Open Access Superconductivity in polycrystalline pressed pellets of k-(BEDT-TTF)2I3(1993) Balthes, Eduard; Breining, Angela; Kahlich, Siegfried; Moldenhauer, Jörg; Schweitzer, Dieter; Bele, Petra; Brunner, Hermann; Heinen, Ilsabe; Nuber, Bernhard; Keller, Heimo J.Investigations of the transport properties of single crystals and polycrystalline pressed samples of K-( BEDT-TTF)2I3 are presented. In contrast to polycrystalline pressed samples of K-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 and K-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu [N(CN)2]Br those of K-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 show bulk superconductivity indicating that the loss of superconductivity in the first two types of samples is not due to the special structure of the K-phase, but probably due to a disproportionation of Cu1+ under the anisotropic pressure during the preparation of the samples. Annealing the single crystals as well as the polycrystalline pressed samples of K-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 at 75°C for a few days results in a structural transfomation with an increase in the transition temperature for superconductivity (about 8 K for the crystals). IR-spectra indicate a transfomatlon into a structure which is identical with αt-(BED-TTF)2I3 which seems to be the thermodynamically most stable phase of the several (BEDT-TTF)2I3 phases.Item Open Access New radical salts of BEDO-TTF: structures and electronic properties of organic metals and superconductors(1993) Schweitzer, Dieter; Kahlich, Siegfried; Heinen, Ilsabe; Song, En Lan; Nuber, Bernhard; Keller, Heimo J.; Winzer, Klaus; Helberg, Hans W.Structural data as well as some measurements on the electronic properties of a few organic metals of the donor BEDO-TTF are reported.