Published September 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Microstructure of YBa2Cu3O7-δ films on deliberately miscut sapphire buffered with CeO2

  • 1. Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875 (China)
  • 2. Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568 (Japan)

Description

Microcrack-free thick YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) films (up to 1000 nm) were successfully fabricated by pulsed laser deposition on deliberately miscut Al2O3(11-bar 02) (5.22 deg. off towards [112-bar 0]) buffered with CeO2. The microstructure of the YBCO films was investigated by cross-section transmission electron microscopy (TEM). No apparent interface reaction is seen for all the TEM observations. A high density of linear defects (dislocations) aligned near c-axis are frequently observed. All the defects are initiated from the YBCO/CeO2 interface, indicating the importance of the microstructure of the CeO2 buffer layer and the sapphire substrate for the growth of YBCO. In addition, numerous small stacking faults lying in the a-b-plane were produced by the linear defects

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.028

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.028;
PII
S0921-4534(07)00510-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
460-462
Journal Page Range
p. 1384-1385
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

Conference

Title
8. international conference on materials and mechanisms of superconductivity and high temperature superconductors
Acronym
M2S-HTSC VIII
Dates
9-14 Jul 2006
Place
Dresden (Germany)

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