Effect of oxygen defects on transport properties and {ital T}{sub {ital c}} of YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6+{ital x}}: Displacement energy for plane and chain oxygen and implications for irradiation-induced resistivity and {ital T}{sub {ital c}} suppression

Journal Article · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996 · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.53.12462· OSTI ID:283913

Tolpygo, S K; Lin, J; Gurvitch, M ^[1]; Hou, S Y; Phillips, J M ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 (United States)
2. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (United States)

The effect of electron irradiation with energy from 20 to 120 keV on the resistivity, Hall coefficient, and superconducting critical temperature {ital T}{sub {ital c}} of YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6+{ital x}} thin films has been studied. The threshold energy of incident electrons for {ital T}{sub {ital c}} suppression has been found, and the displacement energy for oxygen in CuO{sub 2} planes has been evaluated as 8.4 eV for irradiation along the {ital c} axis. The kinetics of production of the in-plane oxygen vacancies has been studied and found to be governed by athermal recombination of vacancy-interstitial pairs. The evaluated recombination volume constitutes about 21 unit cells. The increase in the {ital T}-linear resistivity slope and Hall coefficient at unchanged {ital T}{sub {ital c}} was observed in irradiations with subthreshold incident energies and was ascribed to the effect of chain oxygen displacements. The upper limit on the displacement energy for chain oxygen has been estimated as 2.8 eV. In {ital x}=0.9 samples the {ital T}{sub {ital c}} suppression by in-plane oxygen defects and increase in residual resistivity have been found to be, respectively, {minus}280 K and 1.5 m{Omega}cm per defect in the unit cell. It is shown that {ital T}{sub {ital c}} suppression by in-plane oxygen defects is a universal function of the transport impurity scattering rate and can be described qualitatively by pair-breaking theory for {ital d}-wave superconductors with nonmagnetic potential scatterers. Evaluation of scattering and pair-breaking rates as well as the scattering cross section and potential is given. A comparison of the influence of in-plane oxygen defects on transport properties with that of other in-plane defects, such as Zn and Ni substitutions for Cu, is also made. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

• OSTI ID: 283913
• Journal Information: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Journal Name: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 53; ISSN PRBMDO; ISSN 0163-1829
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
ANISOTROPY
BARIUM OXIDES
CRYSTAL DEFECTS
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
CUPRATES
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ELECTRON CHANNELING
HALL EFFECT
HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS
INTERSTITIALS
KEV RANGE 10-100
KEV RANGE 100-1000
OXYGEN
RADIATION CHEMISTRY
RECOMBINATION
SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS
TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
VACANCIES
YTTRIUM OXIDES