Control of hole distribution through isovalent R-cation substitution in Cu2Ba2RCu2O8 superconductors
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Applied Physics Letters, Volume 90, issue 3, pp. 1-3
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Superconductive Cu2Ba2RCu2O8 samples with R ranging from Gd to Tm have been synthesized through a sol-gel route. Both iodometric titration and Cu L-edge x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy data indicate that the average Cu valence remains constant, whereas Tc increases with decreasing size of the R constituent. An explanation for this trend is revealed from O K-edge XANES spectra, which show that the smaller-for-larger R-cation substitution results in a shift of holes from the Cu2O2 charge reservoir to the superconductive CuO2 planes. Since Cu2Ba2RCu2O8 samples are underdoped, such a shift of holes raises the value of Tc.Description
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Karppinen, M, Abe, Y, Grigoraviciute, I, Chen, J M, Liu, R S & Yamauchi, H 2007, 'Control of hole distribution through isovalent R-cation substitution in Cu2Ba2RCu2O8 superconductors', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 3, 032511, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2431458