Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Raman microprobe investigation of laser-assisted chemically-induced oxygen variation in the high T sub c superconductors YBa sub 2 Cu sub 3 O sub x

Conference · · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)
OSTI ID:6552428
; ; ;  [1]
  1. Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (USA)
Effects of focused Ar{sup +} laser irradiation on YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub {ital x}} in air, N{sub 2}, and O{sub 2} ambients were studied with a Raman microprobe. Drastic changes in the Cu-O stretching mode (A{sub g}) in our Raman spectra recorded in air ambient indicate an orthorhombic to tetragonal phase transformation in the YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub {ital x}} sample. Laser irradiation of the sample in oxygen ambient shows a reversed behavior compared to that in air. When irradiated in nitrogen ambient, it shows additional Raman lines compared wot the spectra for the starting material. This may be due to formation of BaCuO{sub 2} and O(4) vacancies. The reversibility of oxygen exchange in nitrogen and oxygen ambient was also studied. The observed effects in the Raman spectra were interpreted as the chemically induced oxygen desorption and absorption assisted by Ar{sup +} laser irradiation.
OSTI ID:
6552428
Report Number(s):
CONF-891092--
Conference Information:
Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Journal Volume: 199:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English