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Structural commonalities of high-temperature superconductors

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It is shown that all of the presently known high-temperature superconductors belong to one structural type with a basic cell of approximate 4/mmm,D 4h symmetry in tetragonal compounds andmmm,D 2h symmetry in orthorhombic compounds. In the Ba(Pb1−xBi x )O3 and YBa2Cu3O7−δ compounds the basic cell is the unit cell and in the (La1−x Sr x )2CuO4, BiSrCaCuO and TIBaCaCuO compounds it is half the unit cell. The features of more than one copper oxide layer per basic cell, oxygen-free cation layers (e.g., Ca, Y) between CuO2 layers, and slightly puckered CuO2 planes seem to favor higher transition temperatures. The feasibility of several proposed or potentially superconducting structures are analyzed by this scheme.

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Poole, C.P., Datta, T. & Farach, H.A. Structural commonalities of high-temperature superconductors. J Supercond 2, 369–386 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00618524

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