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Electron diffraction and microscopy study of oxygen ordering in YBa2Cu3O7-δ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

C. J. Hou ,
A. Manthiram ,
L. Rabenberg  and
J. B. Goodenough
C. J. Hou
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science and Engineering, ETC 5.160, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1084
A. Manthiram
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science and Engineering, ETC 5.160, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1084
L. Rabenberg
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science and Engineering, ETC 5.160, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1084
J. B. Goodenough
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science and Engineering, ETC 5.160, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1084
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Abstract

Electron-diffraction techniques have been used to study the ordering of oxygen atoms within the Cu(1)O1-δ plane of YBa2Cu3O7-δ. The results show that ordering along a single axis and ordering along two orthogonal axes both occur and alternate systematically across the composition range 0.06 < δ < 0.75. Where the ordering is restricted to a single axis, it is found to be the crystallographic a axis. Various models of oxygen ordering are proposed to explain the observed diffraction phenomena. In addition to the ordering of oxygen atoms that give the diffuse diffraction spots at (h∗/2,0,0) and (0, k∗/2,0), a second type of ordering reflection that occurs at (h∗/3,0,0) and (0,k∗/3,0) was also observed. These sharper and more strongly streaked diffraction maxima are explained in terms of a defect in the cation sublattice.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 9 - 16
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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