Abstract
Low-temperature specific heat measurements wee performed on a series of binary, pseudobinary, ternary, and pseudoternary molybdenum chalcogenides M/sub x/Mo/sub 6/X/sub 8/. The measurements covered a sufficiently wide temperature range to yield the relevant moments of the phonon spectra in addition to the electronic term. From the data in the superconduting state strong coupling parameters were also obtained, particularly the gap ratios 2..delta..(0)/kT/sub c/. The superconducting transition temperature of the Chevrel-type phases essentially depends on the bare electronic density of states as the Fermi level and, moreover, on the atomic order pertaining to the Mo/sub 6/ and certain chalcogen sites. For the ordered compounds, the relation lambdaapprox. =an/sub b/s(E/sub F/) holds on the average. The factor aapprox. =1.25 eV Mo atom spin is practically equal to that found for Nb-based A15-type compounds.
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