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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, II Universit& di Roma Via O. Raimondo 8, 1-00173 Roma, Italy
* Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit& di Salerno, 1-84100 Salerno, Italy
+ Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit& della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, 1-87036 Cosenza, Italy
The Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE) technique has been used to grow epitaxial, single-phase BSCCO films of
both the 2201 and the 2212 phase. The possibility to introduce in the BSCCO structure ions different from
the basic constituent ones by simply adding new elements to the melt has been explored. The effects on the
c-lattice parameter of Ba and Pb doping in the 2212 BSCCO structure, and of Ca doping in the 2201
structure have been determined.
is about 0.05 atoms per formula unit (afu). and superconducting transition temperature are
reported for the films used in this experiment.
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Since this result was probably due to the fact that
The substitution of barium in BSCCO should have Ba is not easily accepted in the BSCCO lattice cell
important structural effects because of the large because of its large ionic radius, we tried to force Ba
ionic radius of Ba. This means, of course, that it substitution in Sr sites by increasing the Ba content
could be difficult to incorporate large amounts of Ba in the melt to 1 afu and by strongly decreasing the Sr
in the BSCCO structure. To our knowledge, no content, in the hope to "make room" for Ba. The
Ba-doped single crystals of BSCCO have been films grown under these conditions were either
obtained up to now. extremely thin, or contained the 2201 phase. To
The starting point to grow Ba:BSCCO films by LPE overcome this last problem we put in the melt an
was simply to add 0.4 afu of Ba to the standard melt excess of both Ca and Cu and finally obtained a film
for the growth of 2212 BSCCO films. The EDS with no 2201 phase content, and composition
measurements of the films obtained in this way Bi2.17Sq.48Bao2oCa~.14Cu2.olOy. The quality of the film
showed however that only a minimal amount of Ba was however not very good, and the zero resistivity
entered in the film, whose composition was checked temperature was as low as 53 K, thus confirming
to be Bi2.~sSrl.F2Bao.o3Cal.o2Cu2.osOy. The zero that it is not possible to incorporate large amounts of
resistance temperature is To = 84.5 K. Both the Ba in the BSCCO structure without modifying its
composition and the critical temperature are similar properties.
to the ones of films obtained from Ba-free standard It is not straightforward to check the effects of a
melts. In Tab. I the melt composition, film dopant on the c-lattice parameter of BSCCO films
composition, c-lattice parameter, growth temperature because they can be masked by a change in the
Tab. I. Melt composition, film composition, c-lattice parameter, critical temperature To and growth temperature T~
for some selected films
which, according to the X-ray spectrum, must be phase. The effects of such substitutions on the
less than 1% of the sample in volume. The lattice c-lattice parameter have been measured.
parameter was then measured to be c=24.24 A. This
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