Abstract
The ambient-pressure synthesis of a new tetragonal alkaline-earth superconducting cuprate, Sr 0.8Ba 1.2CuO 3+δ, from a cupro-oxycarbonate is reported. Magnetic-susceptibility measurements show the presence of a superconducting transition ∼50 K in a post-annealed sample. The crystal structure, refined from time-of-flight powder neutron-diffraction data was found to have an oxygen-deficient La 2CuO 4-type tetragonal T structure ( a = 3.8988(3) A ̊ and c = 12.815(3) A ̊ ) with oxygen vacancies located within the CuO 2 planes. Ordering of these oxygen vacancies is responsible for the observation of a superlattice in both neutron- and electron-diffraction measurements. An interpretation of the electron-diffraction patterns suggests that the superlattice in Sr 0.8Ba 1.2CuO 3+δ and also in the isostructural superconductor Sr 2CuO 3+δ are of an identical nature.
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