Published March 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Hole distribution in (Sr, Ca, Y, La)14Cu24O41 compounds studies by x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy

  • 1. Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 2. Univ. of Electro-Communications, Dept. of Applied Physics and Chemistry, Chofu, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 3. RIKEN/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo (Japan)
  • 4. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  • 5. Tokyo Univ., Inst. for Solid State Physics, Kashiwa, Chiba (Japan)
  • 6. Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkely (United States)

Description

The polarization dependence of soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) near the O 1s absorption edge was measured on two-leg ladder single-crystalline samples of (Sr, Ca, Y, La)14Cu24O41 (14-24-41). The hole distributions in 14-24-41 compounds are determined by polarization analysis. For samples with less than or equal to 5 holes/chemical formula (c.f.), all holes reside on the edge-shared chain layer. In the case of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 (6 holes/c.f.), there is approximately one hole on the two-leg ladder layer, with about five holes remaining on the edge-shared chain layer. By Ca substitution for Sr in the Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 samples, 0.3 holes transfer from the edge-shared chain to the two-leg ladder layer. It is possible that some of the holes on the two-leg ladder layer move from the rung sites to the leg sites upon Ca substitution. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 034704.1-034604.11
ISSN
0031-9015

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Notes
23 refs., 13 figs.