Abstract

Our on-going search for unconventional superconductors among the ThTE2Ge2 phases (TE is a d-electron transition metal) revealed that ThPd2Ge2, which crystallizes with a body-centered tetragonal ThCr2Si2-type structure, exhibits superconductivity at low temperatures. In this paper, we report on the electrical transport and thermodynamic properties of a polycrystalline sample of this new superconductor, extended down to 50mK. The experimental data indicates weakly-coupled type-II superconductivity with Tc = 0.63(2) K and µ0Hc2(0) = 32(2) mT.

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