O K -edge and CuL23-edge XANES study on the concentration and distribution of holes in the (Pb2/3Cu1/3)3Sr2(Y ,Ca)Cu2O8+z superconductive phase
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© 2001 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Karppinen, M. & Kotiranta, Maarit & Yamauchi, H. & Nachimuthu, P. & Liu, R. S. & Chen, J. M. 2001. O K -edge and CuL23-edge XANES study on the concentration and distribution of holes in the (Pb2/3Cu1/3)3Sr2(Y ,Ca)Cu2O8+z superconductive phase. Physical Review B. Volume 63, Issue 18. 184507/1-6. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.63.184507, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.184507.
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2001
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Physical Review B, Volume 63, Issue 18
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By means of high-resolution O K-edge and Cu L23-edge x-ray absorption near-edge-structure spectroscopy continuous increase of the CuO2-plane hole concentration with increasing Ca-substitution level has been established for the superconductive, oxygen-depleted (z≈0) (Pb2/3Cu1/3)3Sr2(Y1−xCax)Cu2O8+z [(Pb2/3Cu1/3)−3212] phase with a three-layer PbO-Cu-PbO charge-reservoir block. For the O K-edge absorption, a pre-edge peak at ∼528.3 eV is seen, originating from the excitation of the O 1s electron to the O 2p hole state located in the CuO2 plane. With increasing Ca-substitution level, the intensity of this peak continuously increases within the substitution range studied, i.e., 0<~x<~0.5. Consistently, with increasing x, the shoulder on the high-energy side of the main absorption peak at ∼932.0 eV in the Cu L23-edge spectra, i.e., a feature typically assigned to formally trivalent copper, enhances. From the Cu L23-edge spectra it was furthermore confirmed that the charge-reservoir copper remains in the monovalent state, indicating that the holes created through Ca substitution are directed solely into the superconductive CuO2 plane. In terms of increasing the CuO2-plane hole concentration, Ca substitution was found to work more efficiently in (Pb2/3Cu1/3)−3212 as compared to, e.g., the related Bi-2212 phase.Description
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x-ray absorption, superconductivity
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Karppinen, M. & Kotiranta, Maarit & Yamauchi, H. & Nachimuthu, P. & Liu, R. S. & Chen, J. M. 2001. O K -edge and CuL23-edge XANES study on the concentration and distribution of holes in the (Pb2/3Cu1/3)3Sr2(Y ,Ca)Cu2O8+z superconductive phase. Physical Review B. Volume 63, Issue 18. 184507/1-6. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.63.184507.