Abstract
We report the XRD observation of the YBa2Cu3O7/YBa2Cu3O 8 structural isothermal transformation at room temperature and atmospheric oxygen pressure. It is shown that this structural transformation runs according to the scheme: YBa2Cu3O7-x→ → Y2Ba4Cu7O14+y,→YBa 2Cu4O8 . These results are the first straightforward experimental evidence that the superconducting orthorhombic YBa2Cu3O7-x (x ≈ 0) is metastable under the ambient pressure at moderate temperature.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 576 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy