Oxide electronics

Abstract:

The NQR spectra of Cu in several ErBa2Cu3O6+x powder samples (0.1≤x≤0.9), characterized by particularly careful annealing, shows a limited number of frequency peaks. This fact is taken as evidence of a high degree of ordering of O(4) in the chain Cu(1) layer of the perovskite (formation of long full chains separated by empty chains as dictated by the stoichiometry), leading to a few regular patterns in the local configurations. © 1994.

Abstract:

The phase diagram of the title system is remarkably rich, exhibiting regions of long-range antiferromagnetic order, short-range (spin-glass-like) order, high temperature superconductivity, or none of these. Here, the phase diagram is reviewed, with an emphasis on our recent studies using 139La NQR, powder and single crystal neutron diffraction, and magnetization measurements for 0≤χ≤0.15 and 0≤δ≤0.1. © 1994.

Abstract:

Herein, we review the magnetic, superconducting and structural phase diagrams of the title systems, with an emphasis on our recent results form magnetic and structural neutron diffraction, magnetic susceptibility and system, and indicate the occurrence of frustrated phase separation on a nanoscopic length scale in the La2-xSrxCuO4 system with O < x ≲ 0.05. 139La nuclear quadrupole resonance measurements. The results clarify the miscibility gap in the La2CuO4+δ. © 1994.

Abstract:

We have extended the calcium solid-solubility limit in La2-xCaxCuO4 to x = 0.2 using synthesis at high oxygen pressure. The superconducting transition temperature increases with doping to 34 K at x = 0.15 and is suppressed for x > 0.15, similar to the Sr-substituted material. At a fixed doping level, the optimum superconducting properties (the highest Tc) are found for flat and square CuO2 planes. © 1994.

Abstract:

The first cuprate superconductor containing double (HgO)2 layers was synthesized using a high-pressure, high-temperature technique. The compound, with chemical formula Hg2Ba2Y1-xCaxCu2O 8-δ, contains a rock salt-type double HgO layer. The prototype compound Hg2Ba2YCu2O8-δ is an insulator. Superconductivity is induced in the system by partially replacing yttrium with calcium. © 1994.