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of an extra AO' (CuO) layer imo the structure of Cu-1212 were proposed
(Zandbergen
et al.,
1988b,c; Marshall
et al.,
1988). The first refinement was
carried out on diffraction data from a superconducting film (T c = 80 K) (Marsh
et
al.,
1988). Bulk synthesis of Ba2RCu408 compounds were reported for R = Y
(Karpinski
et al.,
1988b) and R = Y, Nd, Sm-Gd, Dy-Tm (Morris
et al.,
1989).
Subsequent structural refinements (Hazen
et al.,
1989; Fischer
et al.,
1989)
confirmed the structure proposed by Marsh
et al.
(1988). In contrast to the Cu-
1212 compounds, Cu-2212 compounds do not display a variable oxygen content.
A significant enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature was
observed at high pressure (T c = 108 K at 12 GPa) (Van Eenige
et al.,
1990).
Superconductivity in the T1-Ba-Ca-Cu-O system was first reported by
Sheng and Hermann (1988b). A T1-2212 compound, T12Ba2CaCu208+~, was
identified by Hazen
et aL
(1988a), and its structure was refined by Subramanian
et
aL
(1988a). In the majority of the structural studies reported up to now, the Ca site
was found to be occupied by mixture of Ca and T1 (12-28 at.% T1), whereas the
reduced scattering of the T1 site was attributed to either a partial substitution of T1
by Ca (10-11 at.%) (Maignan
et aL,
1988; Kikuchi
et aL,
1989; Johansson
et aL,
1994) or Cu (9 at.%) (Onoda
et al.,
1988); or simply to vacancies (occupancy
0.87-0.94) (Morosin
et aL,
1991a; Ogbome
et aL,
1992b; Molchanov
et al.,
1994). Vacancies on the O site in the
additional
layers were detected by Ogbome
et al.
(1992b) and Johansson
et al.
(1994) (occupancy 0.94-0.95 or 0.84-0.88),
whereas a displacement of the T1 site from the ideal position
(32(0) 0.013 0.041 0.28635) was considered by Molchanov
et aL
(1994).
A (Pb,Cu)-2212 compound was first reported for the composition
PbBaYSrCu308 (Rouillon
et aL,
1989). Ca-free, reduced (PbSrBaYCu307) and
oxidized (PbSrBaYCu308.2) compounds were also prepared, and structural
models were proposed (Tokiwa
et aL,
1989). Superconductivity was observed
for reduced, Ca-containing PbSrBaYo.yCao.3Cu307 (T c = 55 K) (Tokiwa
et aL,
1990a). The first structural refinement, carried out on the reduced, Ca-flee
compound (Rouillon
et aL,
1992a), was later confirmed by a refinement on a
Ca-containing compound (Ishigaki
et al.,
1994). In the latter article, the structure
of oxidized PbSrBaY0.gCa0.zCu308.35 was also reported. An ordered arrangement
of PbO and Cu layers was observed for the reduced compounds, whereas a close
to statistical occupation of the cation sites in the
additional
layers (45 at.% Pb and
55 at.% Cu, and vice versa) and four partly occupied O sites were found for the
oxidized compound.
Superconductivity in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system was first reported for a
sample of composition BiSrCaCuzOy, which contained two superconducting
phases (T c = 75 and 105K) (Maeda
et aL,
1988). Studies on a sample of
composition BiSrCaCuO7_ ~ gave similar results (Chu
et al.,
1988). The super-
conducting compound with the lower critical temperature was identified as Bi-
2212 (Tarascon
et al.,
1988), and an orthorhombic subcell (a= 5.439,
b = 5.410, c = 30.78 A) and a 5-fold superstructure (5a, b, c) were proposed
(Hazen
et aL,
1988b). The first refinements were carried out in space group