Nanoscale interplay of strain and doping in a high-temperature superconductor

Zeljkovic, Ilija; Gu, Genda; Nieminen, Jouko; Huang, Dennis; Chang, Tay-Rong; He, Yang; Jeng, Horng-Tay; Xu, Zhijun; Wen, Jinsheng; Lin, Hsin; Markiewicz, Robert S.; Bansil, Arun; Hoffman, Jennifer E.

doi:10.1021/nl501890k

Title: Nanoscale interplay of strain and doping in a high-temperature superconductor

Journal Article · Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/nl501890k· OSTI ID:1182521

Zeljkovic, Ilija ^[1]; Gu, Genda ^[2]; Nieminen, Jouko ^[3]; Huang, Dennis ^[4]; Chang, Tay-Rong ^[5]; He, Yang ^[4]; Jeng, Horng-Tay ^[6]; Xu, Zhijun ^[2]; Wen, Jinsheng ^[2]; Lin, Hsin ^[7]; Markiewicz, Robert S. ^[8]; Bansil, Arun ^[8]; Hoffman, Jennifer E. ^[4]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Boston College, Chestnut Hills, MA (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland); Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan); Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)

The highest temperature superconductors are electronically inhomogeneous at the nanoscale, suggesting the existence of a local variable which could be harnessed to enhance the superconducting pairing. Here we report the relationship between local doping and local strain in the cuprate superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊_x. We use scanning tunneling microscopy to discover that the crucial oxygen dopants are periodically distributed, in correlation with local strain. Our picoscale investigation of the intra-unit-cell positions of all oxygen dopants provides essential structural input for a complete microscopic theory.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1182521

Report Number(s):: BNL-107519-2015-JA; R&D Project: PO010; KC0201060

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 12; ISSN 1530-6984

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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