Heat conduction in kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)X superconductors

Citation
S. Belin et al., Heat conduction in kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)X superconductors, SYNTH METAL, 103(1-3), 1999, pp. 2046-2047
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
SYNTHETIC METALS
ISSN journal
03796779 → ACNP
Volume
103
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2046 - 2047
Database
ISI
SICI code
0379-6779(199906)103:1-3<2046:HCIKS>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We present the first study of thermal conductivity of a quasi two dimension al organic superconductor. kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)Cu(NCS)(2) presents features which have already been detected in the high T-c cuprates. Notably we obser ved an increase of the thermal conductivity at the superconducting transiti on which is suppressed by a moderate magnetic field. At low temperatures we clearly resolved a residual electronic contribution close to the universal limit value which is consistent with an anisotropic pairings with lines of nodes in the superconducting gap function.