Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9841719 | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We have performed a systematic investigation of the variations of the lattice constants with substituent rare-earth element concentration x in the nominally undoped superconductors Tâ²-La2-x3+REx3+CuO4 (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Lu, and Y), which we have recently discovered using MBE. The results show both the in-plane and out-of-plane lattice constants (a0 and c0 linearly decrease with x, whose extrapolation to x = 2 agrees well with the reported a0 and c0 values for each Tâ²-RE2CuO4. This behavior is what one would expect simply from the ionic size difference between La3+ and RE3+. The absence of the Cu-O bond stretching due to electron-doping, which is commonly observed in electron-doped Tâ² and infinite-layer superconductors, implies that electron-doping via oxygen deficiencies is, at least, not a main source of charge carriers.
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Authors
M. Noda, A. Tsukada, H. Yamamoto, M. Naito,