Synthesis and Characterization of Superconducting Nanocrystalline Niobium Nitride
Nanocrystalline niobium nitride (NbN0.9 ) was successfully synthesized at 600 °C through a solidstate reaction. The synthesis was carried out in an autoclave by using NbCl5 and NaN3 as the reactants. The X-ray powder diffraction pattern indicates
the formation of cubic NbN0.9. Transmission electron microscopy images show that typical NbN0.9 crystallites are composed of uniform particles with an average size of about 30 nm and nanorod crystallites with a typical size of about 40 × 2500 nm. Magnetic measurements
exhibited that a superconducting transition occurred at 15.4 K for the NbN0.9 product.
Keywords: CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; NANOCRYSTALLINE; NIOBIUM NITRIDE; SUPERCONDUCTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 February 2005
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