Title
Epitaxial growth of YBa2Cu3O7 films onto LaAlO3 (100) by using oxalates
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Dominguez A.B.
Garcia J.
Santibañez J.F.
De Los Santos Valladares L.
Pillaca M.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Due to the current necessity to obtain epitaxial superconductor films at low cost, we report the growth of YBa2Cu3O7 (Y123) films by chemical deposition. The procedure involved simple steps such as precipitation of stoichiometric amounts of yttrium, barium and copper acetates in oxalic acid (H2C2O4). The precursor solution was dripped onto LaAlO3 (100) substrates with the help of a Fisher pipette. The films were annealed in oxygen atmosphere during 12 h at three different temperatures: 820 °C, 840 °C and 860 °C. After 820 °C and 860 °C annealing, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed high intensity of the (00l) reflections denoting that most of the Y123 grains were c-axis oriented. In addition, we also observed a-axis oriented grains ((h00) reflexion), minor randomly oriented grains and other phases (such as Y2BaCuO5 and CuO). In contrast, the sample treated at 840 °C, we noticed c - And a-axis oriented grains, very small amounts of randomly oriented grains without formation of other phases. From the magnetization versus temperature measurements, the critical temperatures were estimated at 70K and 90K for the samples annealed at 820 °C and 860 °C respectively.
Start page
526
End page
531
Volume
36
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84960331983
ISSN of the container
18753884
Conference
Physics Procedia - Superconductivity Centennial Conference, SCC 2011
Sponsor(s)
ABD is grateful to CSI-VRI-UNMSM for funding the project No 101301071. The work in Cambridge was supported by the European Union program ALBAN (Contract No. E06D101257PE) and the Cambridge overseas Thrust. The work in Japan was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS contract Nº PE10027). J.C. Gonzalez thanks to CSIC for his JAE-Doc contract (2009-2012) at the ICMSE-CSIC-US (Spain), and to the Consejería de Economía, Innovación y Ciencia of the Junta de Andalucía (Project FQM-6900) for financial support. The authors are indebted to Dr. D. W. Lee from the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) for his helpful discussions.
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