Journal article
Synthesis, characterization and superconducting properties of Pb2Sr2(Y/Ca)Cu3O9−δ single crystals
Abstract
Single crystals of Pb2Sr2(Y/Ca)Cu3O9-δ have been grown from a PbO-NaCl flux. The absence of CuO flux enables the crystals to be separated non-destructively from the melt using an organic solvent. This method yields high quality, untwinned, reasonably sized crystals with a sharp transition temperature of 84 K. The crystals exhibit an orthorhombic structure with lattice parameters; deduced from a Guinier camera analysis, a = 5.383 (1) Å, b = …
Authors
Xue JS; Reedyk M; Lin YP; Stager CV; Greedan JE
Journal
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, Vol. 166, No. 1-2, pp. 29–35
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
March 1990
DOI
10.1016/0921-4534(90)90548-s
ISSN
0921-4534