STRUCTURAL AND SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF OXYGEN-DEFICIENT NDBA2CU3O7-DELTA

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SHAKED, H
VEAL, BW
FABER, J
HITTERMAN, RL
BALACHANDRAN, U
TOMLINS, G
SHI, H
MORSS, L
PAULIKAS, AP
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[1] BEN GURION UNIV NEGEV,BEER SHEVA,ISRAEL
[2] ARGONNE NATL LAB,ARGONNE,IL 60439
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 41卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.41.4173
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Neutron diffraction was used to determine the structural properties of oxygen deficient NdBa2Cu3O7- for 0.09<<0.74. It was found that superconductivity disappears at the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition which occurs at OT=0.45. Structural parameters vary smoothly with but exhibit a change in slope at the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition. The structural properties exhibit the same features found in YBa2Cu3O7- where OT=0.65. It is shown that the repulsion energy of oxygen atoms in the O(1) and O(5) sites in NdBa2Cu3O7- is smaller than in YBa2Cu3O7-. This lower repulsion energy stabilizes the orthorhombic phase at lower values of. It is argued that the disappearance of superconductivity at the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition is an inherent property of the RBa2Cu3O7- (R denotes rare earth) system. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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