Review on high-performance bulk MgB2 superconductors

M Muralidhar, M Shadab, AS Srikanth… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Although the fascinating effect of superconductivity was discovered more than 100 years
ago, only a few low-temperature superconductors, especially Nb 3 Sn and NbTi, have …

Progress, challenges, and opportunities in the synthesis, characterization, and application of metal-boride-derived two-dimensional nanostructures

H Gunda, LE Klebanoff, PA Sharma… - ACS Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) metal-boride-derived nanostructures have been a focus of intense
research for the past decade, with an emphasis on new synthetic approaches, as well as on …

Nanoscale Mg–B via Surfactant Ball Milling of MgB2: Morphology, Composition, and Improved Hydrogen Storage Properties

YS Liu, KG Ray, M Jørgensen, TM Mattox… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal borides have attracted the attention of researchers due to their useful physical
properties and unique ability to form high hydrogen-capacity metal borohydrides. We …

Quantum electronic pressure and crystal compressibility for magnesium diboride under simulated compression

YV Matveychuk, EV Bartashevich, KK Skalyova… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
The analysis of quantum electronic pressure (QEP) in magnesium diboride crystal under
increasing simulated hydrostatic compression is carried out. The link between the QEP …

Undamped plasmon modes and enhanced superconductivity in metal diborides

H Gao, C Ding, W Geng, X Ma, Y Li… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The anisotropic geometric and electronic structures of metal diborides (MB 2) leads to many
unusual optical and electronic properties. Here, we present a first-principles study on the low …

Insights from systematic DFT calculations on superconductors

IDR Mackinnon, A Almutairi… - Real Perspectives of …, 2021 - books.google.com
We present three systematic approaches to use of Density Functional Theory (DFT) for
interpretation and prediction of superconductivity in new or existing materials. These …

Non-magnetic layers with a single Dirac cone at high-symmetry point of the Brillouin zone

V Damljanovic - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11982, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is well known that a single Dirac cone at high-symmetry point (HSP) of a Brillouin zone,
akin to the one in graphenes' band structure, can not appear as the only quasiparticle at the …

Nonuniform grids for Brillouin zone integration and interpolation

S Chen, PT Salzbrenner, B Monserrat - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We present two developments for the numerical integration of a function over the Brillouin
zone. First, we introduce a nonuniform grid, which we refer to as the Farey grid, that …

A Comprehensive Study of Gamma-rays Shielding Features of Binary Compounds

M Eshghi, MR Alipoor - Progress in Physics of Applied Materials, 2024 - ppam.semnan.ac.ir
In this research, using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation tool, we have investigated the
shielding properties of aluminum oxide, magnesium fluoride, aluminum fluoride, titanium …

Superconductivity in Transition Metal Diborides

S Sinha - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Room temperature superconductivity has been a long sought dream of many condensed
matter physicists. Recently, there have been exciting studies claiming observation of high …