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Growth, Characterization and Application of Single-Crystal La2-xSrxCuO4 Having a Gradient in Sr Concentration

Kazuhiko Ikeuchi, Kazuyuki Isawa1, Kazuyoshi Yamada2, Tatsuo Fukuda3, Jun'ichirho Mizuki3, Satoshi Tsutsui4 and Alfred Q. R. Baron4

Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
1R and D Center, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Sendai 981-0952, Japan
2Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
3Japan Atomic Energy Agency, SPring-8, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
4Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

(Received October 31, 2005; accepted December 6, 2005; published online March 8, 2006)

We succeeded in growing sizable single crystals of La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) having a gradient in the Sr concentration along the axis of crystal growth. These crystals were completely characterized and the gradient of x (x ∼0.03/cm), extending from x = 0.00 to 0.30, was determined from the positional dependences of local lattice constants and by inductively coupled plasma analysis. In accordance with the gradient of x, a gradient of hole concentration was also confirmed from the positional dependences of resistivity and superconducting transition temperatures. A real space boundary between the superconducting and the insulating phases was first observed as the boundary of the vortex state by scanning magnetic fields along the gradient of x using a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope. Precise measurement of the diamagnetic susceptibility of LSCO as a function of doping yielded a phase diagram that is consistent with one obtained from samples with constant x. We used these crystals for the phonon measurement with a synchrotron X-ray beam and succeeded in determining the doping dependence of the dispersion relation by changing the position of the incident beam spot on the crystals with the same experimental setup.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/45/1594/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.45.1594


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