Journals / Turkish Journal of Physics / 2012 / Cilt: 36 - Sayı: 2

Structure and electrical properties of lanthanum doped Bi2Sr2Ca2-xLaxCu3O10+ d superconductor

Pages
245–251
DOI
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Abstract

In this work we studied the effect of La-doping on phase purity, crystal structure and electrical resistivity of Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+d superconductor, synthesized by usual solid state reaction method. The X-ray florescence (XRF) show the stoichiometry of samples and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed the change of structure from orthorhombic to tetragonal by increasing La doping. It was found that the change of lanthanum concentrations of all our samples produce a change in the oxygen content, the ratio of lattice parameters c/a and mass density rm. Electrical resistivity, using the four-probe technique, was used to find the critical temperature Tc and to put in evidence metallic and semiconducting behavior in normal state.

Özet

In this work we studied the effect of La-doping on phase purity, crystal structure and electrical resistivity of Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+d superconductor, synthesized by usual solid state reaction method. The X-ray florescence (XRF) show the stoichiometry of samples and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed the change of structure from orthorhombic to tetragonal by increasing La doping. It was found that the change of lanthanum concentrations of all our samples produce a change in the oxygen content, the ratio of lattice parameters c/a and mass density rm. Electrical resistivity, using the four-probe technique, was used to find the critical temperature Tc and to put in evidence metallic and semiconducting behavior in normal state.

Keywords: Superconductors, electrical resistivity, critical temperature