High Pressure Properties of Superconducting Material Palladium

Abstract:

The electronic and the superconducting properties of Pd were studied in the framework of density functional perturbation theory. We explored the superconducting transition temperature for bulk Pd and predicted possible superconductivity at ambient and high pressures. It is found that of Pd is 0.0356 K at ambient pressure and it decreases with pressure.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 813)
• Pages: 327-331
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.813.327
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Wei Min Peng, Zhong Li Liu, Hong Zhi Fu
• Keywords: Density of States, High-Pressure, Palladium, Superconductivity

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