High oxygen pressure synthesis of the PrBa2Cu4O8 compound

Autor: Z. Guo, K. Kawamoto, Uichiro Mizutani, Nobuyoshi Yamada, Shigeru Horii, Yuh Yamada, Izumi Hirabayashi, Yasuharu Kodama
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Physica C: Superconductivity. 231:131-136
ISSN: 0921-4534
DOI: 10.1016/0921-4534(94)90152-x
Popis: The PrBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 compound with a trace of BaCuO 3 and PrBaO 3 was synthesized for the first time by annealing at the temperature or 957°C under 5 atm oxygen pressure. The content of the PrBaO 3 is estimated to be less than 0.2%. The superconducting transition was not detected down to 2 K. The magnitude of the resistivity and its temperature dependence are consistent with the possession of a metallic character in this compound in contrast to the semiconducting behavior reported previously for the PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7- δ compound. The effective magnetic moment, μ eff , estimated from the Curie-Weiss fitting to the magnetic susceptibility data, turns out to be 2.67 μ B .
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