Published December 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Generic phase diagram of Nd2-xCexCuO4

  • 1. Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Naka-cho 2-24-16, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588 (Japan)
  • 2. Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (United States)
  • 3. NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198 (Japan)
  • 4. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565 (Japan)

Description

We investigated the generic phase diagram of the electron doped superconductor, Nd2-xCexCuO4, using films prepared by metal organic decomposition. After careful oxygen reduction treatment to remove interstitial Oap atoms, we found that the Tc increases monotonically from 24 K to 29 K with decreasing x from 0.15 to 0.00, demonstrating a quite different phase diagram from the previous bulk one. Based on the discussion on the tremendous influence of Oap 'impurities' on superconductivity in T' cuprates, we conclude that our result represents the generic phase diagram for oxygen-stoichiometric Nd2-xCexCuO4.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2009.11.108

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2009.11.108;
PII
S0921-4534(09)00825-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
470
Journal Issue
Suppl.1
Journal Page Range
p. S101-S103
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

Conference

Title
9. international conference on materials and mechanisms of superconductivity
Dates
7-12 Sep 2009
Place
Tokyo (Japan)

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