Atomically Thin Superconductors

Authors

Zhi Li, University of WollongongFollow
Lina Sang, University of WollongongFollow
Peng Liu, University of WollongongFollow
Zengji Yue, University of WollongongFollow
Michael Fuhrer
Qikun Xue
Xiaolin Wang, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

143061

Publication Details

Li, Z., Sang, L., Liu, P., Yue, Z., Fuhrer, M., Xue, Q. & Wang, X. (2020). Atomically Thin Superconductors. Small,

Abstract

© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim In recent years, atomically thin superconductors, including atomically thin elemental superconductors, single layer FeSe films, and few-layer cuprate superconductors, have been studied extensively. This hot research field is mainly driven by the discovery of significant superconductivity enhancement and high-temperature interface superconductivity in single-layer FeSe films epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 substrates in 2012. This study has attracted tremendous research interest and generated more studies focusing on further enhancing superconductivity and finding the origin of the superconductivity. A few years later, research on atomically thin superconductors has extended to cuprate superconductors, unveiling many intriguing properties that have neither been proposed or observed previously. These new discoveries challenge the current theory regarding the superconducting mechanism of unconventional superconductors and indicate new directions on how to achieve high-transition-temperature superconductors. Herein, this exciting recent progress is briefly discussed, with a focus on the recent progress in identifying new atomically thin superconductors.