Anomalously large oxygen-ordering contribution to the thermal expansion of untwinned YBa2Cu3O6.95 single crystals: a glasslike transition near room temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2376-2379

  Nagel, Peter ^a   Pasler, Volker ^a   Meingast, Christoph ^a   Rykov, Alexandre I ^b   Tajima, Setsuko ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS TRANSITION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; TWINNING; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

CHEMICAL PRESSURE EFFECTS; ENERGY BARRIER; HIGH RESOLUTION THERMAL EXPANSION MEASUREMENT; LATTICE MISMATCH; OXYGEN ORDERING EFFECTS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0034276121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2376     Document Type: Article

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