Oxygen and rare-earth doping of the 90-K superconducting perovskite YBa2Cu3O7-x

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Electron Doping of the Parent Cuprate La_{2}CuO_{4} without Cation Substitution

In the cuprates, carrier doping of the Mott insulating parent state is necessary to realize superconductivity as well as a number of other exotic states involving charge or spin density waves. Cation substitution is the primary method for doping carriers into these compounds, and is the only known method for electron doping in these materials. Here, we report electron doping without cation substitution in epitaxially stabilized thin films of La_{2}CuO_{4} grown via molecular-beam epitaxy. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to directly measure their electronic structure and conclusively determine that these compounds are electron doped with a carrier concentration of 0.09±0.02 e^{-}/Cu. We propose that intrinsic defects, most likely oxygen vacancies, are the sources of doped electrons in these materials. Our results suggest a new approach to electron doping in the cuprates, one which could lead to a more detailed experimental understanding of their properties.

Spin glass to superconducting phase transformation by oxidation of a molybdo-cuprate: Mo0.3Cu0.7Sr2TmCu2Oy

A detailed study of the structure and properties for the as-prepared and oxygen annealed Mo0.3Cu0.7Sr2TmCu2Oy material is reported. The Cu/Mo cationic distribution is established using a combination of x-ray/neutron powder diffraction refinement. The chemical substitution of the Mo ions for the Cu ions in the CuYSr2Cu2O(7-δ) structure is found to occur in both of the copper sites for the as-prepared sample. Interestingly, no trace of Mo substitution in the copper plane site is found to occur after oxygenation. The as-prepared Mo0.3Cu0.7Sr2TmCu2Oy material is found to be a spin glass (SG) system and explained on the basis of the cluster-by-cluster freezing model. On the other hand, the oxygen annealed material is superconducting (SC) (T(SC,onset) = 31 K). A peak has been observed in the critical current density plot and can be explained on the basis of field induced pins. The influence of oxygen annealing in the structure and properties of this material are presented and discussed. This seems to be the first case of a SG-SC transformation following an oxidation reaction in cuprates.