Sarma, DD and Sreedhar, K and Ganguly, P and Rao, CNR (1987) Photoemission study of YBa2Cu3O7 through the superconducting transition: Evidence for oxygen dimerization. In: Physical Review B: Condensed Matter, 36 (4). pp. 2371-2373.
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Photoemission spectra of YBa2Cu3O7-δ in the normal and superconducting states provide direct evidence for dimerization of oxygen below Tc. Cu2+ is found to reduce to Cu1+ concomitantly. These changes may be of vital importance to the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.
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|Department/Centre:||Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit|
|Date Deposited:||11 Jan 2010 09:31|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 05:34|
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