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Organic charge‐transfer salt shows superconductivity

FEB 01, 1981

DOI: 10.1063/1.2914428

Gloria B. Lubkin

A highly anisotropic organic charge‐transfer salt has been made that shows a variety of fascinating properties. The material, $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6},$ is the first organic solid to become superconducting. But the superconducting transition occurs at about 1.3 K and with the application of 6 kbar pressure. One can make other related salts, retaining the TMTSF as donor and replacing the acceptor with another inorganic anion, such as ${AsF}_{6},$ or ${ClO}_{4} .$ These related salts are also superconductors with lower applied pressure or even atmospheric pressure but still at very low temperature.

© 1981. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 34, Number 2

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