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Thermal Desorption Studies of Isotopically-Labeled Oxygen from La2Cuo4+δ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

N. D. Shinn ,
M. E. Bartram ,
J. E. Schirber ,
D. L. Overmyer ,
J. W. Rogers Jr. ,
Z. Fisk  and
S.-W. Cheong
N. D. Shinn
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
M. E. Bartram
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
J. E. Schirber
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
D. L. Overmyer
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
Z. Fisk
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
S.-W. Cheong
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

Isotopically-labeled oxygen enrichment and thermal desorption mass spectroscopy (TDMS) have been combined to study interstitial oxygen desorption from superconducting La2CuO4+δ(δ≤5 0.032). Single crystal samples of magnetic, insulating La2CuO4+δ were annealed at 860K under 1-3 kbar oxygen pressure for 12-100 hours to yield hole-doped, superconducting La2CuO4+δ samples with 35K <Tc <40K. Whereas no TDMS signals were observed for the insulator, rapid bursts (FWHM <0.5 sec) of molecular oxygen were observed above 350K while heating the superconductor at less than I K sec−1 in high vacuum. A kinetic model is proposed in which the interstitial oxygen diffuses to internal grain boundaries and defects during heating, thereby inducing stress in the lattice as it attempts to revert to the LaCuO4.00 crystal structure. This stress is relieved by lattice fracture at grain boundaries during the TDMS experiment, releasing the trapped oxygen from the sample as micro-cracks are formed. In addition, the facile oxygen exchange between interstitial and latticeoxygen sites has been discovered by TDMS and weight gain measurements from isotopically-enriched crystals, supporting thestructural model of Chaillout, et al. in which the interstitial oxygen atom dimerizes with a lattice oxygen ion.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 209: Symposium K – Defects in Materials , 1990 , 825
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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