Discovery of a second family of bismuth-oxide-based superconductors

S. M. Kazakov, C. Chaillout (), P. Bordet, J. J. Capponi, M. Nunez-Regueiro, A. Rysak, J. L. Tholence, P. G. Radaelli, S. N. Putilin and E. V. Antipov
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S. M. Kazakov: Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS
C. Chaillout: Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS
P. Bordet: Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS
J. J. Capponi: Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS
M. Nunez-Regueiro: EPM-Matformag, CNRS
A. Rysak: L.E.P.E.S., CNRS
J. L. Tholence: L.E.P.E.S., CNRS
P. G. Radaelli: Institut LaueLangevin
S. N. Putilin: Moscow State University
E. V. Antipov: Moscow State University

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6656, 148-150

Abstract: Abstract The superconducting oxide BaPb1−xBixO3, discovered in 1975 (ref. 1), is an exotic system having an unusually high transition temperature (Tc) of ∼12 K, despite a relatively low density of states at the Fermi level. The subsequent prediction2 that dopingthe electronically inactive barium donor sites, instead ofthe bismuth sites, might induce superconductivity with a higher Tc led to the discovery3,4 in 1988 of superconductivity in the Ba1−xKxBiO3 system (Tc ∼30 K for x = 0.4). But it remains an open question why many of the superconducting properties of these materials are similar to those of the well-known copper oxide superconductors5, despite their pronounced structural differences: the former have a three-dimensional bismuth–oxygen framework, whereas the structures of the latter are predominantly two-dimensional, consisting of copper–oxygen planes. Understanding of the copper oxide superconductors has gained immensely from the study of many different superconducting systems, and so it might be expected that the identification of bismuth oxide superconductors beyond the substituted BaBiO3 compounds will prove to be similarly fruitful. Here we report the synthesis of a second family of superconducting bismuth oxides, based on SrBiO3. We show that partial substitution of potassium or rubidium for strontium induces superconductivity with Tc values of ∼12 K for Sr1−xKxBiO3 (x = 0.45–0.6) and ∼13 K for Sr1−xRbxBiO3 (x = 0.5).

Date: 1997
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