Abstract
Ambient temperature measurements of the crystallographic cell parameters for oxygen deficient Ba2YCu3O7-δ prepared by gettered annealing indicate the presence of microscopic differences in the oxygen configuration at fixed δ dependent on annealing temperature. The loss of superconductivity with increasing oxygen deficiency is shown to be due to a step-like increase in length of the plane copper-apical oxygen bond, and not to the orthorhombic to tetragonal transition. The crystal structure of the 84K superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ is described, as is the stabilization of 110K superconductivity via partial Pb/Bi substitution with long time annealing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 560-565 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications |
Volume | 153-155 |
Issue number | PART 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1988 |