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- Title
Superconductivity and Unusual Magnetic Features in Amorphous Carbon and in Other Unrelated Materials.
- Authors
Felner, Israel
- Abstract
Traces of superconductivity (SC) were observed in three different inhomogeneous sulfur-doped amorphous carbon (a-C) systems: (i) in old commercial powder, (ii) in fabricated (by pyrolytic decomposition of sucrose) powder, and (iii) in a-C thin films. (i) The commercial a-C powder contains 0.21 at% sulfur and reveals traces of two superconducting phases around T ˜34 and T ∼65 K. (ii) The fabricated a-C powder is diamagnetic but not superconducting. However, mixtures of this powder with sulfur (a-CS) which were heated to 250 °C also show traces of SC up to T ∼42 K. (iii) Non-superconducting a-C thin films were grown by electron-beam induced deposition. SC at T ∼34 K emerged only after heat treatment with sulfur. It is proposed that the high SC states in a-CS ( T ∼65 K at ambient pressure) and in HS materials ( T = 203 K under >200 GPa) has the same origin. In both sulfur-containing systems, SC is induced by the interaction between electrons and the high frequencies of low mass atom (H or C) vibrations a-CS products obtained by heating commercial and fabricated a-C powders at 400 °C show unusual magnetic features: (a) pronounced irreversible peaks around 55-80 K which appear in the first zero-field-cooled (ZFC) runs only. This temperature range is close to the highest T observed. (b) These peaks are totally suppressed in the second ZFC sweeps measured a few minutes later. (c) The peaks reappear after 18 months. (d) Around the peak position, the field-cooled (FC) curves cross the ZFC plots (ZFC > FC). All these phenomena are intrinsic properties of the amorphous carbon materials and were not observed in crystalline graphite. The ZFC > FC state was also observed in chiral-based magnetic memory device and unexpectedly in the liver taken from a patient with mantle cell lymphoma. This peculiarity will be discussed.
- Subjects
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; CARBON films; ELECTRON beams; MAGNETIC properties; MANTLE cell lymphoma; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Journal of Superconductivity & Novel Magnetism, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1557-1939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10948-016-3772-z