Advances in single crystal growth and annealing treatment of electron-doped HTSC

Details Advances in single crystal growth and annealing treatment of electron-doped HTSC Advances in single crystal growth and annealing treatment of electron-doped HTSC

2010-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2092v2

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 188, 61-72 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

19 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. B

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjst/e2010-01297-8

High quality electron-doped HTSC single crystals of $\rm Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta}$ and $\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta}$ have been successfully grown by the container-free traveling solvent floating zone technique. The optimally doped $\rm Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta}$ and $\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta}$ crystals have transition temperatures $T_{\rm c}$ of $25$\,K and $23.5$\,K, respectively, with a transition width of less than $1$\,K. We found a strong dependence of the optimal growth parameters on the Ce content $x$. We discuss the optimization of the post-growth annealing treatment of the samples, the doping extension of the superconducting dome for both compounds as well as the role of excess oxygen. The absolute oxygen content of the as-grown crystals is determined from thermogravimetric experiments and is found to be $\ge 4.0$. This oxygen surplus is nearly completely removed by a post-growth annealing treatment. The reduction process is reversible as demonstrated by magnetization measurements. In as-grown samples the excess oxygen resides on the apical site O(3). This apical oxygen has nearly no doping effect, but rather influences the evolution of superconductivity by inducing additional disorder in the CuO$_{2}$ layers. The very high crystal quality of $\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta}$ is particularly manifest in magnetic quantum oscillations observed on several samples at different doping levels. They provide a unique opportunity of studying the Fermi surface and its dependence on the carrier concentration in the bulk of the crystals.

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